Prague Spring Open Air, supported by the ČEZ Group

Starting at 3 p.m., we’ve prepared an entertaining program for audiences of all ages, culminating in a live broadcast of the opening concert of Prague Spring 2026 at 8 p.m. from the Municipal House. Bedřich Smetana’s Má vlast will be performed by the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Petr Popelka. Before that, you’ll be able to immerse yourself in a playful world of music with Vlnohraní, let loose with the kids at the Big Drum Show, test your music knowledge in the popular AZ Quiz, or enjoy a live concert by the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra. Bring your family, friends, a picnic blanket, and head to the Prague Spring Open Air, which we’ve prepared for you again this year with the support of the ČEZ Group.

3  pm

Vlnohraní – Musical Menagerie

Nature has always been a source of musical inspiration. Composers strive to capture not only its beauty but also the voices of the animals that are an integral part of it. Some depict these sounds through musical imitations, while others tell stories in which animals take on human traits or play key roles in people’s lives. Through live musicians, the roar of a lion, the flight of a butterfly, and the song of a swan will come to life. This is The Musical Menagerie, an interactive concert by Czech Radio for children ages 5 to 10. Actress and Czech Radio Vltava host Jana Trojanová will guide the audience through this lighthearted program about classical music.

4 pm

Grand Percussion Show

HAMU Percussion Ensemble

A concert filled not only with rhythms, but also with curiosities from the percussion instrument collection and audience interaction. You’ll hear and see buckets, brooms, barrels, rainsticks, flying saucers, singing shells, and percussion of all kinds. Younger listeners aged 6 to 12 and their parents will especially enjoy it, but older siblings won’t be bored either.

5.30 pm

Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra

Jan Novák – violin

Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin, String Orchestra, and Basso Continuo in E Major “Spring,” Op. 8, No. 1 from The Four Seasons

Antonín Dvořák: Serenade in E Major for String Instruments, Op. 22

The Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, composed of leading players from the Czech Republic’s premier orchestra, will join forces with the young violinist Jan Novák, a laureate of the Prague Spring International Music Competition and recipient of the award for the most successful and youngest Czech participant. Their joint performance will open—how could it be otherwise—with “Spring” from the famous cycle The Four Seasons by the Baroque master Antonio Vivaldi. The concert, held in the relaxed atmosphere of Riegrovy sady, will continue with the joyful Serenade for String Orchestra, which Antonín Dvořák composed in just fourteen days—when else but—in the spring of 1875.

6.30 pm

AZ Quiz on the Go

Czech Television’s legendary quiz show, this time hosted live by Aleš Zbořil right in the park, featuring questions from the world of music. The contestants will include leading figures from the world of classical music who know how to lighten up. Test your knowledge against opera singer Adam Plachetka, National Theater Opera chief conductor Robert Jindra, and composer and conductor Marko Ivanović.

8 pm

Opening Concert

Didn’t manage to get tickets for the Prague Spring opening concert? No problem! Watch the live broadcast of Smetana’s My Country performed by the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra and Petr Popelka under the open sky in Rieger Park. “My Country is not about blind nationalism. It is written with a genuine and utterly disarming love for one’s homeland,” says Petr Popelka, chief conductor and music director of the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra and one of today’s most sought-after artists, who conducts the world’s finest orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.