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Parsifal review – bunkers, CCTV and fembots in elusive vision of Wagner’s mystical masterpiece

Evgeny Titov’s brutal and powerful new staging of Wagner’s final opera explains as little as possible. Christian Gerhaher is a compelling and wild-eyed Amfortas and Jakub Hrůša and the Royal Opera’s orchestra are superb

The Guardian - UK · Oct 2

‘I never choose the cautious option’: Royal Opera’s Jakub Hrůša on collaboration, control and conducting Wagner

One year into the role, the Royal Opera’s music director is taking on the challenge of Parsifal, and, next season, the Ring Cycle. I’m here, and I am courageous says the conductor

The Guardian - UK · Sep 25

Martinů: The Symphonies 1-6 album review – Hrůša is a persuasive guide to this distinctive and likable cycle

The first appearance of these distinctive works on the Deutsche Grammophon label is a red-letter day

The Guardian - UK · May 14

‘I’m good at doing pain’: soprano Ausrine Stundyte on trauma, adrenaline and playing a 300-year-old woman

As she prepares to star in Janáček’s The Makropulos Case for the Royal Opera, the great singer explains that she does not play ‘the happy, jumping, sexy lady’

The Guardian - UK · Nov 3, 2025

Strauss, Dvořák and Glazunov album review – packs a dramatic punch

Jakub Hrůša’s absorbing treatment gives life to three late-19th-century works reflecting on the notion of heroism

The Guardian - UK · Oct 31, 2025

Tosca review – punchy new Puccini rises above the ‘Shame on you’ Russian soprano protests

Outrage over the casting of Anna Netrebko didn’t make it to the inside of the auditorium – where roars of approval greeted this high-stakes game of blood-spattered conflict directed by Oliver Mears

The Guardian - UK · Sep 12, 2025

Czech Philharmonic says Jakub Hrůša will become chief conductor in 2028

The Czech Philharmonic says Jakub Hrůša will become its new chief conductor and music director

The Independent UK · Jun 30, 2025

'We have to drive the art forms forward': Royal Opera and Ballet announce new season for 2025/26

The programming has been unveiled by Royal Ballet and Opera, and it is an exciting mix of the historic and the cutting edge

Evening Standard · Apr 2, 2025

Soprano Anna Netrebko to open Royal Opera season, returning after a 6-year absence

Soprano Anna Netrebko will return to London’s Royal Opera after a six-year absence to open the 2025-26 season in a new production of Puccini’s “Tosca” that starts Jakub Hrůša’s tenure as music director

The Independent UK · Apr 2, 2025

BBCSO/Biss/Hrůša review – radiance, juggernaut power and soulfulness

The conductor put his stamp on the BBCSO programme with lyrical Haas, energising Beethoven, introspective Schubert and Schostakovich that may have been the loudest orchestral music ever heard at the Barbican

The Guardian - UK · Feb 3, 2025