The Antonín Dvořák Award for 2019 and 2020 will be presented to soprano Gabriela Beňačková and conductor Jakub Hrůša next week. They will receive the prize – which is for the long-term promotion of Czech music at home and abroad – at a concert of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra at Prague’s Rudoflinum next Wednesday.
The Antonín Dvořák Award has been bestowed by the Czech Academy of Classical Music since 2012. The concert will be broadcast live on TV.
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2 pm ET: NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester presents
Gilbert conducts Prokofiev. Daniil Trifonov joins Hamburg’s NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra for Prokofiev’s First Piano Concerto under the leadership of Chief Conductor Alan Gilbert who also leads the orchestra in an account of the composer’s
Classical Symphony. View here.
2 pm ET: The Royal Opera House presents
Puccini’s
Il Trittico.
Il Tabarro, set aboard a barge on the Seine, stars Lucio Gallo as Michele, Eva-Maria Westbroek as Giorgetta, and Aleksandrs Antonenko as Luigi.
Suor Angelica has Ermonela Jaho in the title role of the nun whose familial sacrifice is at the heart of the opera.
A new do-it-yourself kit could provide hope for those who hate having a cotton swab stuck up their nose to test for COVID-19.
Developed by scientists at Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic, the self-test involves gargling tap water.
After gargling for around 30 seconds, the water is spat into a test tube that contains a special powder.
The test which researchers say is as reliable as a nasal swab test is then sent off to the laboratory.
Marian Hajduch, director of the university s institute of molecular and translational medicine, said: “The test tube contains a powder which helps to stabilise the virus for several days at normal room temperature.