Classical concerts in Prague: church and palace concerts, the Mirror Chapel and the Czech Philharmonic compared

💡 The Short Version: A church or palace concert is about an hour of well-known pieces for £21.30 to £36.64 on GetYourGuide: the Mirror Chapel in the Clementinum from £26.13, Lobkowicz Palace in Prague Castle daily at 13:00 from £21.30. For whole symphonies, the Czech Philharmonic plays at the Rudolfinum, with programmes from CZK 550 to 1,800, and students with an ISIC card pay CZK 100 for a last-minute ticket. The Prague Symphony Orchestra plays in the Municipal House. Or book a concert: the Mirror Chapel concertad is from £26.13 (4.7 stars from 6,328 reviews, 1 hour).

The concerts, compared

The Mirror Chapel

The Clementinum · 60 minutes · from £26.13 · open seating · not wheelchair accessible

The Mirror Chapel is part of the Clementinum, built from 1722 to 1726 and named for the mirrors that decorate it. The concerts are given by a chamber cast of the Royal Czech Orchestra with a soprano, a violinist and an organist, and the programme on the seller’s listing is highlights: Vivaldi’s Spring and Winter, Pachelbel’s Canon, Mozart’s Requiem (Lacrimosa), the Allegro of Beethoven’s Fifth, and Smetana’s Vltava (PragueClassicalConcerts).

The Mirror Chapel in the Clementinum, with its organ loft and rows of seats. Photo: VitVit, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

• Seats: open seating within three price categories on the seller’s own site: rows 1 to 7 CZK 1,050, rows 8 to 12 CZK 900 and rows 13 to 17 CZK 750, first come, first served. Students from 15 to 26 and over-65s pay CZK 100 less, children from 3 to 14 half price, and under-3s go free. GetYourGuide’s from price, £26.13, is about the CZK 750 rate.
• Dress and comfort: casual; the chapel is heated in winter. It is not wheelchair accessible: a few steps and no ramp or lift.
• Two programmes a night: the seller lists a highlights concert at 18:00 and a Vivaldi, Beethoven and Chopin programme with piano at 20:00.

GetYourGuide’s Mirror Chapel concertad is from £26.13 (4.7 stars from 6,328 reviews) and sells up to 30 minutes before the start; a second listing, the Mirror Chapel Classical Music Concertad, is from £26.13 (4.8 stars from 372 reviews) with Chopin on its programme.

Lobkowicz Palace

Prague Castle · daily 13:00 to 14:00 · from £21.30 · a trio of flute, violin and piano

The House of Lobkowicz holds classical concerts every day from 13:00 to 14:00 in the palace’s Baroque Concert Hall, which has 17th-century frescoes. A trio of flute, violin and piano plays about 60 minutes of Bach and Vivaldi, Mozart and Beethoven, and the Czech composers Dvořák and Smetana. Exchange a voucher for an official ticket at the Lobkowicz Palace cash desk, not at the Prague Castle ticket office (Lobkowicz). On GetYourGuide, the Midday Classical Concert at Lobkowicz Palacead is from £21.30 (4.6 stars from 1,248 reviews, 1 hour). It fits the morning at Prague Castle.

Church concerts in the Old Town

Old Town Square and the streets round it · 1 hour to 70 minutes · from £22.15

Three churches in the Old Town sell the same shape of concert, an hour or so of the familiar repertoire in a Baroque or Gothic interior:

• St Nicholas Church, on Old Town Square: GetYourGuide’s concertad is from £22.15 (4.4 stars from 602 reviews, 1 hour), with artists the listing says are mostly from the National Theatre and the Czech Philharmonic. It sells up to 5 hours before the start.
• St Giles’ Church: the concert by a chamber orchestraad is from £22.64 (4.7 stars from 426 reviews, 65 minutes).
• Týn Church: the concertad is from £28.12 (4.6 stars from 144 reviews, 70 minutes).

Spanish Synagogue

The Jewish Quarter · 1 hour · from £36.64 · wheelchair accessible

A concert of classical, modern and Jewish music, performed, the listing says, by leading players of the Prague FOK Symphony Orchestra. The Spanish Synagogue concertad is from £36.64 (4.7 stars from 1,310 reviews), and the listing marks it wheelchair accessible. The synagogue is also one of the sites on the Jewish Museum’s CZK 600 ticket: see Prague Jewish Quarter tickets.

The Czech Philharmonic

Rudolfinum, Alšovo nábřeží 12 · Dvořák Hall · CZK 550 to 1,800 · about 1 hour 40 to 1 hour 50

The Czech Philharmonic plays its own programmes in the Dvořák Hall: for the October 2026 concerts, tickets are CZK 550 to CZK 1,800, and the programmes run about 1 hour 40 to 1 hour 50 with an interval (Czech Philharmonic). The box office at the Rudolfinum is open on weekdays from 10:00 to 18:00 from September to June, and on the day of a concert until the start. Tickets are also sold online, and reservations are taken by phone on +420 227 059 227 or by email (Czech Philharmonic tickets).

The Dvořák Hall in the Rudolfinum, seen from the balcony. Photo: Mojmir Churavy, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.

• Students: a last-minute ticket for CZK 100 with a valid ISIC card, for every Czech Philharmonic concert in the Dvořák Hall except New Year and festival concerts. Buy it online on the day from 10:00 (sales end 1½ hours before the start) or at the box office with the card in your hand. The seat is assigned just before the concert, from the top price category down to standing room (Czech Philharmonic for Students).
• Access: the Rudolfinum has a barrier-free entrance from 17. listopadu street.

The Prague Symphony Orchestra

The Municipal House, Smetana Hall · box office náměstí Republiky 5 · Monday to Friday 10:00 to 18:00

FOK, the Prague Symphony Orchestra, is the city’s official orchestra and plays in the Smetana Hall of the Municipal House, an Art Nouveau building. Its 92nd season opens on 7 and 8 October 2026 with Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Brahms’s Second Symphony, with Alena Baeva and the chief conductor Tomáš Netopil (FOK). The box office is on +420 222 002 336.

An orchestra rehearsing in the Smetana Hall of the Municipal House. Photo: VitVit, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Dinner with a concert

Boccaccio Hall, Old Town · 2½ hours · from £93.72 · wheelchair accessible

The Mozart Ballroom concert with a three-course dinnerad is from £93.72 (4.8 stars from 1,297 reviews): Mozart’s operatic music from musicians of Czech opera houses, in costume, in the historically protected Boccaccio Hall, with the dinner served between the segments. For something looser, the Reduta Jazz Club concertad is from £19.16 (4.5 stars from 2,491 reviews, 2 hours).

Opera and ballet

Opera, ballet and drama are at the National Theatre, the State Opera and the Estates Theatre, which sell through the National Theatre’s box office at Ostrovní 1, open Monday to Friday 9:00 to 18:00 and Saturday and Sunday 10:00 to 18:00, and online (National Theatre).

For the rest of an evening, Prague ghost tours and the medieval dinner compares the other options, and where to eat in Prague has tables to book. To fit a concert into your days, see 3 days in Prague and Prague in one day. The Mirror Chapel is in the Clementinum, whose guided tour is covered in the Old Town Hall and clock guide, and the bridge beside it is in the Charles Bridge towers guide. The hotels nearest the Old Town concerts are in hotels near Old Town Square, where to stay in Prague compares the other areas, and Prague public transport has the fares. For what to book before you go, see what to book before you go in Prague.