A selection of the 2021 Verbier Festival’s finest concerts with many of the event’s most loyal artists (Valery Gergiev, Evgeny Kissin, Denis Matsuev) and newcomers (Mao Fujita or Josef Špaček playing Mozart, Klaus Mäkelä conducting the Verbier…

Giacomo Puccini honours his own code by bringing all those elements together in a single work, Il trittico, which is made up of three one-act operas. Finding the right librettos was not easy, but one month after the end of the First World War, his…

The concert prepared by Jakub Hruša and the world-famous pianist Daniil Trifonov starts with Scriabin’s brilliant Piano Concerto. For the second half of the concert they perform Josef Suk’s iconic Asrael Symphony. “In the case of the Piano Concerto…

When painter Gustav Klimt coated his famous paintings with gold leaf, Richard Strauss musically reveled in the opulence that was so typical of Vienna at the time. No fewer than five powerful Wagnerian voices are needed for his "Die Frau ohne Schatten…

The Italian composer Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) died before he could complete his final opera Turandot. Fortunately, his lesser-known colleague Franco Alfano managed to use the maestro's notes to complete the opera in time for its April 26, 1926…

Celebrating democracy, freedom and non-violence, the Czech Philharmonic’s concert to mark the Velvet Revolution was presented for the first time in 2020. Taking place every year on 17 November – both the day the then Czechoslovak riot police brutally…

Artist-in-residence for the 2022 season, pianist Yuja Wang meets the Czech Philharmonic, conducted by Semyon Bychkov. The centrepiece of this exciting evening is the Glagolitic Mass, a late masterpiece by Leoš Janáček. The programme opens with Agnus…

LIVING BACH is a unique quest for J.S. Bach's universal secret. A journey across six continents to amateur musicians and singers, who have placed Bach at their “heart of matters”. All of them are planning to attend the world’s largest gathering of…

The beginning of the season belongs to Antonín Dvořák, in part because the beginnings of the Czech Philharmonic are associated with him personally. At the opening concert the orchestra will be welcoming for the first time the outstanding Augustin…

Celebrating democracy, freedom and non-violence, the Czech Philharmonic’s concert to mark the Velvet Revolution took place for the first time in 2020. Every year on 17 November – both the day the then Czechoslovak riot police brutally supressed a…