The annual Prague Spring International Music Festival gets underway on Wednesday evening. In line with tradition, it opens with Smetana’s My Country. However, the performance, featuring a well-known early music ensemble Collegium 1704, is expected to be quite unusual. The opening concert of Prague Spring is one of the major events on the Czech music scene and is usually entrusted to one of the large symphonic orchestras. At the 76th edition of the festival it was originally scheduled to be performed by the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. However, due to the current coronavirus measures in Germany, the performance had to be cancelled.