Golden Prague is approaching: the festival will be opened by Dagmar Pecková
Film premieres, musical performances and a rich accompanying program including a music and dance evening in Latin American rhythms. That will be this year’s Golden Prague.
The fifty-ninth year of the international festival will offer eighty-eight competition and two non-competition films about music and dance from around the world, thanks to which, in addition to traditional opera or dance houses and concert halls, the audience will visit, for example, the peaks of the Swiss Alps, the Greek island of Delos or the border between North and South Korea. One of the oldest television festivals in Europe will be hosted by the New Stage of the National Theater from Wednesday 21 to Saturday 24 September.
“A large number of high-quality music and dance programs from all over the world, an important television personality from the management of ARTE at the head of the international jury, a star artist as the new winner of the award for extraordinary artistic contribution, as well as a lot of screenings, accompanying programs and personal meetings with Czech musicians, singers, dancers and foreign creators. All this is this year’s festival, thanks to which Prague once again becomes the capital of programs about music, dance and theater in the world. It fills me with joy and also with the belief that culture can – and even must – bring people together in these not-so-cheerful times.” says Zlatá Praha festival director and executive director of the CT art program Tomas Motl.
Opera singer Dagmar Pecková and her guests will officially kick off the fifty-ninth year of the festival. Traditional Mozart arias, operetta repertoire and songs by Gustav Mahler will not be missed by TV viewers, who will be offered a live broadcast of the cultural program ČT art on the opening night. The documentary is about an important singer Stoptime Dagmar Peckováwhich will have its official festival premiere a day later, on Thursday, September 22.
Zlatá Praha will also honor the legacy of one of the most important choreographers of his generation, Jiří Kylián. Documentary film Theatrical secrets they describe the death of the birth, the life and the first theater dedicated to dance art, the Nederlands Dans Theater, of which Kylián was artistic director for many years, will give the festival a world premiere on Friday, September 23.
In addition to many festive premieres and a total of ninety films, this year’s edition will also offer a rich accompanying program. During the four days of the festival, visitors can look forward to a special projection, the Dance Room and a Saturday guided tour of the historic building of the National Theater and in the afternoon StarDance, where the personalities of the popular competition will dance in Václav Havel Square. The full program of the festival is available at festival website.
The best films will be selected by an international jury
The awarding of the best films is traditionally decided by a German five-member international jury, which this year includes ARTE executive director Wolfgang Bergmann, Portuguese RTP director of performing arts Daniel Gorjão, Serbian RTS director of music Silvana Grujić, artistic director of the National Theater Opera and State Opera Per Boye Hansen and the Commercial Director of Performing Arts of Italy’s RAI Rita Lombardi. The awards ceremony takes place on Saturday, September 24. It will be offered to viewers by CT art from 9:45 p.m.
Golden Prague in numbers
- 90 artistic imagesof which 88 compete for the Grand Prix Golden Prague, Czech Crystal, Czech Television Award and Special Recognition for Outstanding Artistic Achievement titles
- 190 minutes takes the longest film: Fire Shut Up in My Bones
- 8 minutes lasts the shortest film: Moving Giacometti
- 7,307 is the length of all submitted competition films
- 47 television and film productions submitted their films to the festival
- 22 images representing the Czech Republic
- 11 images representing Czech Television
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