A and I were recently in Prague and while we were there we decided to break up our beer drinking with a cultural trip to see the Prague State Opera perform Puccini’s Turandot.
So how did we arrange a visit to what is listed by the Lonely Planet as the 435th out of 645 best ‘things’ to do in Prague. We booked our tickets online via Bohemia Tickets which seems to be semi official as the prices are about the same as the local ones, and it is linked through the main opera house website http://www.opera.cz/.
The booking process was quite simple with the standard ‘pick you seat’ format favoured by many of the UK theatre booking websites. They sent us an email which we printed and took to their office in Prague to exchange for a ticket. (Turns out we could have used the email as an eticket and gone straight to the opera house to).
The building itself is amazing http://www.opera.cz/, a grand old central european building from the nineteenth century, and the production was excellent. There are drinks and snacks available during the intermission, and subtitles are in Czech and English.
Its easy to find, next door to the National Museum and just a stones throw from Wenceslas Square (Map).
Here is a video from Tripadvisor with more pictures :
If you are in the Czech Republic I would highly recommend it, and it will make up for any less cultural things you might do while on holiday.
Vijay
