The Royal Opera Home has named the conductor Jakub Hrůša as its new music director. The younger Czech, at present with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, succeeds the present music director Antonio Pappano.
Hrůša, who can be principal visitor conductor of each the Czech Philharmonic and the Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, joins instantly as music director designate. He’ll assume the function of full music director in 2025.
His predecessor Pappano is to step down from his publish on the finish of the 2023/24 Season, after 22 years. The 2 conductors will share tasks for the Royal Opera Home’s 2024/25 season. Pappano will then take up the publish of chief conductor on the London Symphony Orchestra.
Hrůša has earlier expertise at Covent Backyard, having performed the ROH’s manufacturing of Carmen in 2018, in addition to Lohengrin earlier this 12 months.
Plans for his tenure as music director embody works by Puccini, Prokofiev, Britten and Janáček.
Hrůša stated: ‘I’ve been privileged to work on two great Royal Opera Home productions as a visitor conductor, and the current Lohengrin was one of many highlights of my inventive life up to now. I’ve all the time dreamed a couple of long-term relationship with a home the place one can attain the very best requirements in opera, and I realised in a short time that I adored the entire group of artists and workers at Covent Backyard.
‘I’m thrilled to simply accept the place of music director, and I really feel immensely excited in regards to the future collaboration. London isn’t just a spot I’ve liked dwelling and dealing however will now be valuable to me as my true inventive house within the discipline of opera. I really feel blessed that I can dedicate my expertise and energies to the way forward for this extraordinary opera home.”
Oliver Mears, Director of The Royal Opera, stated: ‘Jakub has confirmed himself to be one among right now’s most fun conductors in each the symphonic and operatic repertoire. We have now been vastly impressed by not solely his superlative music and theatre-making, but additionally by the generosity and heat of his character: Jakub is a real collaborator, in a position to get the easiest from his colleagues.
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‘As a musician of excessive mind, thoughtfulness, and a deep conviction within the energy of music to alter us, he’s the right match for Covent Backyard.’
Hrůša will turn out to be the Royal Opera’s seventh music director following on from Karl Rankl, Rafael Kubelík, Georg Solti, Colin Davis, Bernard Haitink and Pappano.
