Prague – New Year’s Eve: Open cinemas and theaters, also restaurants
Afternoon, early evening and evening performances are played in their entirety on New Year’s Eve a number of Prague theaters, for example, in the National Theater there is a choice of the Nutcracker ballet in the afternoon, the drama Poe at 5:00 p.m. and the opera Ples at the Savoy Hotel at 6:00 p.m. Performances on the last day of the year have been prepared by, among others, the Municipal Theaters of Prague, the Vinohrady Theater, the Na Zábradlí Theater, the Na Fidlovačce Theater and Jára Cimrman’s Žižkov Theater.
Cinematic
Cinemas will also be open, in addition to multiplexes and smaller ones. For example, the Lucerna cinema will broadcast live a concert by the Berlin Philharmonic with tenor Jonas Kaufmann, which will feature arias from Italian and Russian operas, Tchaikovsky’s Italian Capriccio or parts of Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet.
Concerts
The New Year’s program was also prepared by music clubs such as Rock Café, Roxy, Vagon, Lucerna Music Bar or Jazz Dock. During the day, the zoo and a number of public ice rinks will also be in operation, and the traditional midnight New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Metropolis Run will take place.
Restaurants and bars
The restaurant and bars will also be open, which often require a reservation in advance due to high demand. Dinner in a better restaurant on New Year’s Eve in Prague can cost several thousand crowns, for example, a six-course menu in the restaurant in Žižkov’s transmitter costs 5,499 crowns. Regular businesses then usually offer a standard offer.
An unconventional program
There are also options for spending the last day of the year steamboat trips. They are associated with a New Year’s Eve party involving a banquet and drinking. A five-hour cruise with dinner, free consumption and live music costs 4,750 crowns per person. Cruises vary in length and cost, and ships depart from a number of locations on the Vltava.
No fireworks, no video mapping
In Prague, the city traditionally held a large fireworks display, which was replaced in 2019 video mapping. Not even that one will be held this year. According to available information, only the city districts are planning fireworks Prague 21 together with Běchovice, Rolling stock AND Klánovice. Will be held in the field between Běchovice and Újezd nad Lesy.
Prague at the same time two years ago tightened the rules for the use of fireworks – According to the decree, people do not set off firecrackers in conservation areas, on embankments, in natural parks and protected areas, around waterways and on islands, dams and dykes, in the vicinity of the Troy Zoo and in homes for the elderly and other residential social facilities. Prague this year according to city spokesman Vít Hofman launched a campaign using informational signs in parks and on embankments, outdoor advertising carriers or space in the media in which Prague residents are reminded of the restrictions. Violation of the ban is punishable by a fine of up to 100,000 crowns in administrative proceedings or up to 10,000 crowns on the spot.
Video mapping on the facade of the State Opera. Jiří Marek
Prague has limited fireworks, but the decree does not apply to the entire territory of the capital, and some people also set off rockets in the city center despite the ban
Author: Blesk:ROBERT KLEJCH / CNC Robert Klejch