Yaroslav Shemet, General Music Director of the Baltic Opera in Gdańsk, makes his debut with Prague State Opera in the 2025/2026 season conducting Puccini’s La Bohème. A highly successful production directed by Ondřej Havelka with dramaturgy by Jitka Slavíková and sets by Martin Černý will see its revival in nine performances between December 2025 and January 2026.
Polish distinguished maestro Antoni Wit appears with Saarländisches Staatsorchester in two concerts on May 4th and 5th 2025 at the Saarland State Theater in Saarbruecken. Maestro Wit is joined by the orchestra’s Artist-in-Residence renowned violinist Kirill Troussov in Henryk Wieniawski’s virtuosic Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 in D minor. A defiant 20th century classic, Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra is the focus of Polish music exploration in the second half of the concert preceded by Wojciech Kilar’s Orawa for strings. Glazunov’s obscure unfinished Symphony No 9 opens the programme. The concert is recorded by SR kultur Radio.
Legendary pianist Stephen Kovacevich will perform a recital at esteemed Koerner Hall of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto on October 5th 2025. As part of the venue’s 2025/26 season’s extraordinary line up of piano recitals, Stephen Kovacevich will play his beloved piano sonatas by Beethoven, Schubert and Berg.
“A musician who is totally immersed in his craft, his interpretations are like no one else’s and always come straight from the heart: musical messages of wisdom, peace, resignation and hope.” (The Washington Post)”
Janáček Quartet’s concert performed at The Queen’s Hall in August 2002 is to be broadcast as part of the BBC Radio 3 documentary series “Great String Quartets at Edinburgh” on 25th of August 2022. The legendary performance features a programme of some of the most outstanding works in string quartets’ repertoire from the Bohemian and Moravian music traditions by Martinů, Dvořák and Smetana. For more details see HERE
