Concerts & Opera

In addition to cheap food and beer, Prague has plenty of venues offering concerts, plays, ballets, and operas tickets for less than the cost of a movie rental. I pick the two most magnificent venues I could find online and bought tickets for what was playing there.

On Saturday night I booked 100Kc tickets for a Geniuses of Prague Concert at the Estates Theater. The beautiful and regal theater is where Mozart premiered Don Giovanni starring himself as the conductor and is the only theater left standing where Mozart preformed. The performance turned out to be children singing famous songs from Czech masters, but it was wonderful nonetheless.



On Sunday night we attend the opera "The Barter Bride" by Bedřich Smetana at the National Theater. The opera was in Czech, however, they provided German and English subtitles on board above the stage. It was my first opera and I enjoyed the experience very much.




Both buildings we works of art themselves and added to the performances.

Friday Night

On Friday night we attended Proms Concert, a free opera concert in the market square. It was wonderful; we sat in a patio cafe and had a few drinks while listening to Dutch opera music. The cafe we picked happened to have a fabulous strawberry beer on tap and I am sure we will be back just for that!

Halfway through the show it started raining pretty hard, but the locals just put up their umbrellas and the show went on. I hope they have more of these events regularly in the market, because it sure is an inexpensive, enjoyable way to spend the evening.