The 2025/26 season is the 20th in the history of Steps to the New World, and our dear conductor Marko Ivanovič is celebrating a round-numbered birthday, so we will hear pieces dear to his heart and some others  he himself composed.

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The Jungle Book and More or Make a Wish for a Conductor

Rudolfinum

Featuring Czech Philharmonic violinist Viktor Mazáček and mezzo-soprano Markéta Cukrová, this concert celebrates the pure beauty of Baroque music. A blend of sacred and secular works by Antonio Vivaldi offers space for reflection as well as admiration for both compositional craft and musical expression.

Advent Concert II • Markéta Cukrová

Principle Guest Conductor Jakub Hrůša has once again prepared a bold programme based on dramatic contrasts. The concert opens with the world premiere of a work by Pavel Zemek Novák followed by a gem of the piano literature played by the brilliant Leif Ove Andsnes. After Grieg comes Vladimír Sommer’s evocative Vocal Symphony which will mark the Czech Philharmonic’s fourth performance of the work.

Czech Philharmonic • Leif Ove Andsnes

The delicate and transparent sounds of High Classicism will be heard in this concert of works by Haydn and Mozart performed by the pianist Miroslav Sekera and mezzo-soprano Markéta Cukrová, one of the Czech Republic’s most versatile singers.

Czech Chamber Music Society • Markéta Cukrová

The opera Nabucco, depicting the dramatic story of the subjugation of the Israelites by the King of Babylon, ranks among Guiseppe Verdi’s most celebrated works. Phenomenal chorus scenes, extremely impassioned virtuoso arias, as well as the perennially topical themes of expansive war, lust for power, betrayal, life and death, are the reasons why it has always been a staple of opera houses’ repertoire.

Nabucco

State Opera

The fruit of the collaboration between the two great creators, Antonín Dvořák and Jaroslav Kvapil, who were close as artists and friends alike, was a magical, dreamy story of the great, unfulfilled desire of the water nymph Rusalka, a work in which Dvořák’s musical genius reached its apex. The fairy-tale atmosphere inspired the composer to create singular, impressionistic music replete with melodic imagination and masterful instrumentation, a suggestive expression of the play of waves and the reflection of moonlight on the surface of a lake, as well as the overwhelming magic of a fairy-tale dream.

Rusalka

In the near future, somewhere in the middle of Europe, there is a land where not only lies, but all things imagined are forbidden under strict penalty, including fables and imagination. Because they challenge the given, measurable facts verifiable by reason, undermine the ruling power and, in an apparent paradox, point too clearly to the very essence of things, the truth. Such audacity must be punished.

Markéta Cukrová

Events

Upcoming events

Aug 30 - Dec 15, 2026

Nabucco · Národní divadlo

Sep 1 - Dec 11, 2026

Rusalka · Národní divadlo

Sep 7, 2026 - Jun 21, 2027

Baron Münchhausen · Národní divadlo

Past events

Apr 29, 2026

The Jungle Book and More or Make a Wish for a Conductor · Czech Philharmonic

Dec 7, 2025

Advent Concert II • Markéta Cukrová · Czech Philharmonic

Future and recently performed repertoire

Second Wood Sprite in Rusalka by Dvořák

Národní divadlo

Fenena in Nabucco by Verdi

Národní divadlo

Singer in Chamber Concerto in D minor by Vivaldi

Czech Philharmonic

Singer in Chamber Concerto in F major by Vivaldi

Czech Philharmonic

Singer in Vocal Symphony by Sommer

Czech Philharmonic

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