15 Dec, 2025
Semyon Bychkov returns to the Paris Opera to conduct a new production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, directed by Ralph Fiennes. Bychkov first conducted Onegin while still a student at the Leningrad Conservatory and 20 years later, following performances at Théâtre...
18 Nov, 2025
The evening was rounded off with Beethoven’s Second Symphony in D major, played as a transparent stream of tones with many dynamic changes, rhythmic vivacity, softness, and purity of the larghetto and the third movement’s minuet bursting with verve and...
9 Oct, 2025
Starting in Taipei on October 14, Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic will embark on an extensive tour in Asia, with concerts in Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. In addition to complete performances of Smetana’s Má Vlast in each country, repertoire for the tour...
8 Jul, 2025
There was orchestral luxury down in the pit, where Semyon Bychkov conducts a slow and spacious performance with the music sinking into a velvety cushion of rich sonorities. . . his slow-burn Wagner pays off and was wonderfully well played, earning him an ovation....
20 May, 2025
This year, Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic will give both the opening and closing concerts of the Prague Spring International Festival, currently celebrating its 80th anniversary. Since the inaugural Festival in 1946, the Festival has always opened with a...
