Practical information

[columns amount="2"]Registration
Conference registration includes participation at all sessions and social events, as well as one ticket to all performances of your choice from the seven that are proposed.

Please indicate your choice on the registration form. Additional seats are available for purchase.

Please click here to download the registration form  >>

Rates    
Members                                              After 31/10
■ first participant                  €300      €350
■ additional participants     €250     €300
Non-members
■ first participant                    €600    €650
■ additional participants      €450     €500
Youth (under 30)                   €200     €230

[/columns]

---

Getting there
Via Brno airport

There are direct flights from London, Eindhoven and Moscow.
Opera Europa organised shuttle buses
■ Ostrava → Brno and airport (2h45) Sunday 12.00, 14.00

Via Vienna aiport
Opera Europa organised shuttle buses 
■ Vienna airport → Brno (2h30) Thursday 11.00, 13.00 and 17.00 Friday 11.00
■ Brno → Vienna airport  (2h30) Saturday 13.30
■ Hukvaldy → Vienna airport (3h) Sunday 12.00, 14.00

Via Prague
■ Coaches will take you to Brno but the highways are unpredictable so it is better to take the train.
www.studentagency.cz
■ There is a bus shuttle from airport to railway station and train goes every hour (all included in railway ticket). www.prg.aero/en/parking-transport/transport/train-airport-express/

Via Ostrava airport
Opera Europa organised shuttle buses 
■ Ostrava → Ostrava airport (45m)Sunday 12.00, 14.00

Check airport websites for connections to Brno. 

---

Hotels
Hotels recommended by our hosts

(code : Opera Europa)

Brno Barceló Brno Palace Hotel ****SUP Šilingrovo náměstí 2/265, 602 00 Brno www.barcelo.com Single deluxe rooms from 89€ Double deluxe rooms from 99€ Suites from 129€ (breakfast included) reservation: brnopalace.res@barcelo.com	Royal Ricc  **** Starobrněnská 10, 602 00 Brno www.royalricc.cz Single rooms from 75€ Double rooms from 85€ Suites from 130€ (breakfast included)
Best Western Premier Hotel International Brno **** Husova 16, 659 21 Brno www.hotelinternational.cz/cs Single rooms from 86€ Double rooms from 109€ Executive rooms from 190€ (breakfast included)	Grandhotel **** Benešova 18-20, 602 00 Brno http://www.grandhotelbrno.cz Single rooms from 76€ Double rooms from 84€ Superior rooms from 88€ (breakfast included)

Ostrava
Mamaison Business & Conference Hotel Imperial
Tyršova 1250/6 702 00 Moravská Ostrava
www.mamaison.com/imperial
Single rooms from 76€
Double rooms from 84€

Reservations : reservations.imperial@mamaison.com

---

Performances
The Folk Roots of Leoš Janáček Works

A Moravian evening specially curated to show conference delegates the folk roots of Janáček’s music in a short concert followed by a tasting of Moravian wines

Vĕc Makropulos (The Makropoulos Case)
Première of new production to open the Festival of Janáček’s extraordinary dystopian opera about the woman given the Makropulos ‘thing’ which extends her life by 300 years

Kronos Quartet 
Ground-breaking American Kronos Quartet bring a characteristically diverse and exploratory programme 
to the 2014 Festival

Čertova stĕna (The Devil’s Wall)
National Moravian-Silesian Theatre’s new production this year of Smetana’s last, darkest and most imaginative opera Devil’s Wall about the frustrations of a bachelor in search of love

Alice in bed
Ivo Medek’s multimedia chamber opera Alice in bed, premièred earlier this year, about a computer game designer who ‘must fight the world through the looking-glass’

Kat’a Kabanova
Janáček’s masterly opera Kat’a Kabanova based on Ostrovsky’s Storm about the tragedy of a young woman trapped in an unhappy marriage and a repressive society

Jenůfa
Oper Graz’s acclaimed staging by Peter Konwitschny of Janáček’s first great success Jenůfa is the first guest production of the 2014 Festival