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Maurice Peress

Maurice Peress has also extensively conducted orchestras internationally, including the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in 1980, the Vienna State Opera in 1981, the Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Rome in 1988, the Brno Orkester of the Czech Republic in 1997, the FOK Orkester at the Prague Spring Festival in 1988, the Shanghai Radio and Television Orchestra in 1996-97, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in 1998, and the Barbican Centre Orchestra in London in 1999.


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Eva Urbanová

In 1991 she had the destinction of opening the Prague Spring Festival as the soprano soloist in Dvořák's oratorio Saint Ludmila with the Czech Philharmonic under conductor Gerd Albrecht.