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Tomáš takes the podium at Janáček Brno for three special performances
Tonight, Brno’s Janáček Theatre hosts one of the most eagerly anticipated concerts of the 10th edition of the international opera and music festival Janáček Brno. Under Tomáš Netopil’s baton, the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra will perform Béla Bartók’s spirited Dance Suite, Gustav Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer, featuring the outstanding bass-baritone Adam Plachetka as […]
Season 2026/27
Tomáš continues in his role as Chief Conductor of the Prague Symphony Orchestra with joy and infectious energy. He will kick off the new season with gala concerts on 7 and 8 October in the magnificent Smetana Hall at the Municipal House, and will go on to lead the orchestra through a wide range of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]