Diapason, June 2007 “Comment est née votre affection pour la France? ‘C’est le pre-mier pays européen à m’avoir accueilli si chaleureusement. En 1983, j’ai dirigé Casse-Noisette de Tchaikovski à l’Opéra de Lyon ; l’année suivante, j’étais au Festival d’Aix-en-Provence...
The Daily Telegraph, November 2006 “It’s 6.30pm in a restaurant in Covent Garden, London, and the waitress has been waiting some time for the excitable, slightly jowly man with the black eyes and dark curly hair sitting opposite me to say whether he likes the wine....
La Stampa, June 2006 “Listening to him while he conducts is like unrolling a precious piece of fabric, hold it against the light and discover in the weave all the emotions of its maker. Semyon Bychkov is one of those exceptional conductors whose elegance and...
The Financial Times, June 2006 “Guest of the world’s greatest opera houses and renowned interpreter of 20th century classics, Paris based Semyon Bychkov is chief conductor of WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Next month, he conducts Lohengrin in Vienna: ‘Perhaps because...
Gramophone, November 2005 “Now that we have allegedly reached CD-Dämmerung, at least so far as the classical recording industry is concerned, events such as this autumn’s simultaneous release of Daphne and Elektra are not supposed to happen. Even a few decades ago in...
