She sang part of the performance while seated. When she stood up, she occasionally held onto the microphone stand for safety — otherwise, according to concert witnesses, she looked well and radiated her usual energy. "Your favor, energy, and kind personal meetings are always the greatest reward for me," she told the audience afterwards. Nový Čas ↗
Key actors — tap for context
Lenka Filipová
Czech singer, chansonnière, guitarist, composer and lyricist.
Why here: She performed her first concert in Slovakia in Pezinok after brain surgery.
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Czech singer and composer, daughter of Lenka Filipová, performs under the artistic name Lenny.
Why here: She informed fans of her mother's condition after her fall and confirmed in spring that she is recovering.
Karel Zich
Czech singer, guitarist and music composer, died in 2004.
Why here: He recorded a duet Mosty with Filipová, one of her most played songs to this day.
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Pezinok
District town in southwestern Slovakia.
Why here: The location of her first Slovak concert after brain surgery.
More info →Cerebral aneurysm and fall from stairs
Last October, Filipová suddenly suffered a ruptured cerebral aneurysm. She fell unconscious down the stairs and suffered serious injuries throughout her body, including to the brain. She ended up in the Central Military Hospital in Prague, where she underwent acute brain surgery, and then withdrew and devoted herself solely to treatment and rehabilitation. Aha ↗She only described it after six months of silence, in spring. "I'm speaking after a long, unwanted break. It was a very difficult period for me, which I tried to overcome and get back into shape," she wrote on social media. "A cerebral aneurysm suddenly ruptured in my head and I was in the wrong place at the wrong time." Aktuálně.cz ↗
She cancelled or postponed concerts in the meantime. TN.cz ↗
The comeback started in Třeboň, not Pezinok
Slovak media described the Pezinok performance as a return to the stage. More precisely, the comeback began in spring and Pezinok was the first Slovak stop. She gave her first concert after surgery on May 1st at the J. K. Tyla Theatre in Třeboň, the second three weeks later in Jindřichův Hradec. She had previously postponed April dates to June to have more time to recover. Jindřichohradecký deník ↗She has been performing regularly since May. Her daughter, singer Lenny, also confirmed in early June that she had returned to performing. Super.cz ↗
Guitarist who also sings in Breton
Filipová grew up in a musical family — her father was an opera singer and actor, her mother a music education teacher. A guitar stood leaning against the wall at home. "Music is my partner. It holds me up when I don't know what to do," she often says. Dobré noviny ↗She studied classical guitar first at the Prague Conservatory and then at the Academy of Music in Paris, and pursues it in the Concertino project — from Vivaldi and Bach to contemporary composer Milan Tesař. In 2018, she added the album Oppidum with Celtic ballads, which she sings in English, Breton, and two forms of Gaelic. musicserver.cz ↗
Among her most famous songs is the duet Mosty with Karel Zich from 1980, a Czech version of the hit Lost in Love by the group Air Supply. The music was composed by Graham Russell, the Czech lyrics were written by Michal Bukovič.
Among the songs that her audience still seeks out today is Prý se tomu říká láska.
What hotinfo is monitoring
- Lenka Filipová's concert at the Hviezda cinema in Trnava took place on September 24, 2026 as announced
- Lenka Filipová's concert at the House of Culture in Palárikovo took place on September 25, 2026 as announced
- Filipová announced further Slovak concerts beyond the two September dates
Illustrative photo: Lenka Filipová at a concert in 2012. Author David Sedlecký, Wikimedia Commons, license CC BY-SA 3.0.
