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Helena and her guests will perform the biggest musical hits at the Prague Opera on September 19 and 20.
Helena promises a whole evening filled with well-known hits from various musicals. There will be songs from among others: Jesus Christ Superstar, Hello Dolly, Cats, Man of La Mancha, Hair, Les Misérables, West Side Story. There will be songs from the films Mamma Mia and Flashdance as well as hits from the Czech musical Noc na Karlstejne and the cult film Silene smutna Princezna.
Among guests: Jiri Korn with his group 4TET and Bara Basikova.
The shows will be filmed for a DVD release.
New CD
New double CD entitled "Recital" will be released on September 27. The 2 CDs contain the birthday gala concert at the Kalich theatre in Prague in June 2009. Helena performed all her greatest hits and among them her favorites as ABBA's "The Winner Takes It All" and Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive".
Tracklisting
CD1
Já vítám déšť (It's Raining Men)
Vodopád
Dvě malá křídla tu nejsou
Neuč slunce hřát
Vím málo
Nechci být jenom tvůj sen
Oh, baby, baby
Mít rád až k zbláznění
A tak splácím léta zlá
Přejdi Jordán
Archiméde
CD2
Já půjdu dál (I Will Survive)
Můžeš zůstat, můžeš jít
To tehdy padal déšť
Modrý anděl
Cínový vojáček
Vzhůru k výškám
Lásko má, já stůňu
Vzdálený hlas
A ty se ptáš, co já (The Winner Takes It All)
Sladké mámení
Dlouhá noc
Červená řeka
Parlez–moi d’Amour
Coming...
December 2010
The big gala concert at Lucerna with special guest Maryla Rodowicz.
Remember Me
Helena recorded a new song "Remember Me" together with German baryton Vladimir Boldt. Helena met Vladimir Boldt during her short stay in Berlin in January.
Berlin
Helena was guest of honour at the opening of the exhibition of costumes from Czech films for children which are well-known in Germany, Poland and other countries. She performed 3 songs - one of them in German lanugage. Lots of German and international Helena fans came to see their star singing. The fans represented many countries as of course Germany, Slovakia, Poland, Sweden and USA.
More new pictures of Helena in Berlin in Helena 2010 section
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She is unbeatable
Helena live at Lucerna, 19 December 2009
Two sold-out concerts at the Lucerna concert hall in Prague confirm once again that Helena is the biggest pop star in Czech Republic. Even the presence of hundreds of international fans from Germany, Russia, Sweden or Poland confirms that she is one of the biggest stars in Central Europa as well. One of the Russian fans spent two nights and one whole day on the train from Moscow to Prague only to see Helena on stage. After the show it was time to take the same train back...
The new show performed by the star during the two sold-out nights at the Lucerna Concert Hall in Prague features Helena at her best with both old hits and brand new songs released about four weeks ago on her new album "You stay here with me". The show has some absolutely stunning surprises as for instance Helena's dance performance of "Sir Duke" with 7 young tapdancers!
The concert starts at 7 pm and ends after 11 pm - the giant show lasts 4 hours! Helena is dancing and singing and the audience does not want her to finish... She sings of course her evergreens as her version of ABBA's The Winner Takes It All, Lasku ma ja stunu, Cervena reka...
She is accompanied by a very good band and proffesional and talented three girls in the choir. Special guests: No Name and Sarka Vankova.
The audience loves Helena and Helena loves her audience. She is the best selling Czech female artist ever and still after more than 40 years on stage the Top 5 singer in Czech Republic who sells out large arenas. Hard working and ambitious - beautiful and full of energy
MORE PICTURES IN THE HELENA 2009 SECTION
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After the show
Press meeting, after-party and our meeting - Helena and Stefan enjoy each other's company...
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The release party
The release party for the new album - 23 November 2009, the Hybernia Theatre - Prague.
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The new album out now
The new studio album entitled: "Zustavas tu se mnou" ("You stay here with me") was released on Monday 23 November. The album contains 15 new songs and one bonus track - the song from the musical "Mona Lisa" in which Helena played one of the parts in 2009 in the Broadway theatre in Prague. The songs on the new album represent lots of musical styles from pop ballads to South American rhythms as well as modern pop and rock. Helena even decided to make a cover on the old hit "No more Tears" performed originally by Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer - here together with Bara Basikova. Even an Billy Joel song "She's Always a Woman" got finally its Czech version performed by Helena. She recorded the song for the first time back in 1978 in German language for her album with the songs of Billy Joel in West Germany.
The booklet features beautiful photos taken in Greece at the end of October 2009. Totally the album contains 59 minutes and 47 seconds of new music performed by Helena.
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TV Ocko -
the biggest gay personality award 2009
Helena was a special guest in the 1-hour-special "Inbox" on TV Ocko on 28 October where she was talking about her new DVD/CD Live and the upcoming new studio album.
At the beginning of the week Helena was awarded with the Gay Award 2009 as the biggest personality in Czech Republic. It is well-known that Helena is probably the most loved pop singer in the gay world along with another Czech diva Hana Zagorova. The award was a very happy surprise for the singer.
Congratulations!!!
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Helena on prime-time TV
On Friday 16 October Helena appeared on Czech TV in the one of the most popular shows "Relax, please". She gave an in-depth interview where she answered the questions about the Golden Kids affair, getting older and finally the most important the forthcoming brand new studio album which will be released this autumn. As a bonus she performed live one of the newest songs "Nothing's gonna part us".
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DVD+CD
The long-awaited live DVD + CD saw its release on 21 September 2009. The DVD contains whole concert from 21 December 2008 at Lucerna in Prague - totally 35 songs performed by Helena and her guests Jitka Zelenkova, Monika Absalonova and Michal David. The concert was absolutely stunning and the team behind the DVD managed to catch the feeling very well. Helena's voice was crystal clear and as usual she made a great performance. The CD features 15 songs taken from the concert - see the tracking list below.
Raffem.com debutes on stage after "Samba"...:-)
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New Helena box
New CD box entitled "Golden Collection" was released in May by Universal in Czech Republic. The box contains 4 CDs with 81 songs featuring Helena's greatest hits as well as rare recordings. Each CD has its own title: CD 1 Greatest Hits; CD 2 Unforgettable duets; CD 3 Sladke mameni (the same as the title of Helena's smash hit from 1983 & 2003); CD 4 I will go on.
Undoubtedly a real rarity for Helena fans.
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