Final Concert of Moravian Autumn: Monteverdi’s Vespers in a new form and with a staged performance
PRESS RELEASE October 22, 2025 This year’s Moravian Autumn is coming to an end. On Sunday, it will conclude with a gala concert featuring Claudio Monteverdi’s Marian Vespers. “When I heard this work performed by La Tempête for the first time, the singer’s first notes took my breath away. Monteverdi’s spiritual opera is a spiritual […]
Edinburgh in Brno, Brno in Edinburgh. Classical music connects both cities in the fall
Similar size, population, atmosphere, support for culture, and an emerging concert hall designed by one of the world’s best acousticians, Yasuhisa Toyota. These are the connections between Brno and the Scottish capital of Edinburgh. And that’s not all. At the invitation of Brno Mayor Markéta Vaňková, Lord Provost of Edinburgh Robert Aldridge visited the city […]
Educational whisky degustation on Scottish Evening in the Courtyard
Our partner, The Whisky Shop, has prepared an educational whisky tasting for you at a special festival price. You will taste five carefully selected whisky samples and learn what makes each one special. You can be sure that you will be served whiskies that you have probably never tasted before. Visitors to Scottish Evening receive […]
The Last Pagan Rites sold out in 6 minutes
The second performance of Kutavičius’ oratorio The Last Pagan Rites, which we put on sale on Monday morning, sold out in six minutes. So if you are planning to write to us asking when sales will finally begin, they have already begun and ended shortly thereafter; this is not a sales system error. Thank you […]
Etažér and Festival Tea at Five at a discounted price
This year’s festival partner is the Etažér bar and confectionery, located in Brno’s Alfa Passage, which offers first-class sweet and savory specialties from the Martinák confectionery. Every Tuesday, Etažér hosts Tea at Five, offering a unique experience that combines English elegance with the charm of the First Republic. Before the concerts on September 23 and […]
More tickets for Last Pagan Rites by Kutavičius
We would like to thank the Kantiléna choir for agreeing to perform Kutavičius’s oratorio The Last Pagan Rites for a second time. Tickets for this festival staple sold out within a few hours. This mystical work will now be performed once more, on the same day and at the same venue, at 9:15 p.m. Tickets […]
Moravian Autumn brings top British orchestras to Brno
PRESS RELEASE August 5, 2025 The Moravian Autumn International Music Festival, whose 53rd edition will take place from October 12 to 26, will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sir Charles Mackerras. Brno will welcome top British orchestras in which he performed. Mackerras’ daughter Catherine will also attend the festival’s opening concert, as […]
Opening concert: Ceremonial presentation of the Charles Mackerras Prize
The main theme of this year’s festival is the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sir Charles Mackerras. Moravian Autumn commemorates him not only through Mackerras’s relationship with Czech music, but in a much more comprehensive form: it invites to Brno important British ensembles with which Sir Charles Mackerras worked closely at […]
News of 53rd year: VIP tickets
Do you crave great music, but want something more? New this year are VIP tickets, which can be bought for 1500 CZK for selected concerts (with no further discount available). VIP tickets can be bought for the five main concerts, they are marked in dark blue in the ticket offer. With a VIP ticket you get: . […]
Auspice of the President of the Czech Republic over our festival
Today, on the day when Petr Pavel has been President of the Czech Republic for two years, we want to share with you our joy and pride that he has taken over the patronage of this year’s festival. We appreciate and thank him, as well as Prime Minister Petr Fiala, who also took over the […]