Collegium 1704

[3] In 2008, Music Bridge Prague — Dresden began, bringing together the two cities’ wealth of cultural traditions.

Since autumn 2015, the two cycles have been merged into a single concert season that continues to take place in parallel in Prague and Dresden.

[4] Collegium 1704 specialises in Baroque music, in particular that of Jan Dismas Zelenka, Johann Sebastian Bach, Claudio Monteverdi, and George Frideric Handel.

The ensemble cooperates with prominent soloists, both Czech and international, including Magdalena Kožená, Bejun Mehta, Simona Houda-Šaturová, Martina Janková, Hana Blažíková, Karina Gauvin, Lisandro Abadie, and others.

[8] In 2014 Collegium 1704 collaborated with Bejun Mehta on a DVD of Gluck’s opera Orfeo ed Euridice with the stage director Ondřej Havelka,[9] and with Rolando Villazón on the making of the BBC 2 documentary Mozart in Prague.