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Salome in Chicago

Tomáš’s debut at the famous Lyric Opera in Chicago couldn’t have gone better! “The unsung star of this performance was conductor Tomáš Netopil, who made his debut here… The Czech conductor led the clearly enthusiastic members of the Lyric Opera Orchestra (plus additional musicians) in an extraordinary performance of Strauss’s stormy score, which was carried […]

28th January 2026

Happy New Year!

Tomáš will welcome 2026 together with the Prague Symphony Orchestra at the traditional New Year’s Concert in the magnificent Smetana Hall of Prague’s Municipal House. Shortly thereafter, he will fly across the ocean to make his debut at Chicago’s Lyric Opera, where he will conduct Strauss’s Salome. This is not Tomáš’s only opera title this […]

1st January 2026

Shostakovich – Prokofiev: Violin Concertos

Today sees the release of a Supraphon recording in which Tomáš, together with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, accompanies rising violin star Daniel Matejča, a 20-year-old virtuoso. The CD (and its digital formats) feature violin concertos by Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev. “It wasn’t our first artistic encounter, and in the case of Shostakovich’s violin […]

3rd October 2025

Inaugural concert live on ČT art and ČRo Vltava

Tonight, in the magnificent Smetana Hall of the Municipal House, for the first time with Prague Symphony Orchestra, Tomáš will take up the baton as chief conductor and open the orchestra’s 91st season. The program of the eagerly awaited inaugural concert is emblematic: the charming ballet suite Salt Above Gold by Jan Hanuš, whose legacy […]

17th September 2025

Season 25/26: debuts and comebacks

The new concert season begins with an event exceptionally important for Tomáš: beginning September, he is taking up the position of chief conductor and music director of the world-renowned Prague Symphony Orchestra. “The opportunity to influence and shape a symphony orchestra, which I can cultivate musically and aesthetically, is a fundamental and unique moment for me,” admits […]

2nd September 2025

Academy Kroměříž 2025

Between August 14 and 22, Academy Kroměříž takes place, an exceptional event that was born eight years ago thanks to Tomáš and his colleagues and which ideally combines a prestigious international academy for young musicians with a respected music festival. Tomáš is not only the founder but also the active artistic director of the Academy […]

16th August 2025

Four winter music débutantes

At the beginning of 2025, Tomáš is presenting four new debuting compositions to the audience. The first of these was the Confluere by the internationally successful Lithuanian female composer Justė Janulytė. The work was jointly commissioned by Radio France, L’Orchestre national des Pays de la Loire and the Brno Philharmonic; it was with the latter […]

20th January 2025

New Year’s concert live from Rudolfinum, Prague

Tomáš will enter the year 2025 in the Dvořák Hall of Prague’s Rudolfinum together with the Czech Philharmonic; at its traditional New Year’s concert we will return to the belle époque, when French music crossed the boundary of traditional aesthetics and thrilled listeners with beautiful melodies, grand Romanticism, and of course, Impressionism. Let’s dance together […]

1st January 2025

Season 24/25

The forthcoming concert season will bring Tomáš to two dozen of the world’s great symphony orchestras from three continents, while being interwoven with a distinctly Mozartian lineage: in October, Tomáš will be delighted to return to the great Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, with whom he will stage a new production of Mozart’s coronation opera […]

6th September 2024

Academy Kroměříž

These days the Academy Kroměříž and Music Festival is taking place in Tomáš’s hometown Kroměříž. It is an extraordinary, increasingly popular summer music event, which Tomáš founded seven years ago and together with a great team of colleagues and foreign and local lecturers has been developing very successfully. The Academy specializes in teaching students of […]

17th August 2024