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With Petr Popelka on the podium, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra brings a native feel and colorful exuberance to a cultural icon.

A strong world premiere of Aucoin's evocative and immediate Song of the Reappeared, a concerto for voice written for soprano Julia Bullock which sets vivid imagery by a poet who suffered under authoritarianism.

Yuja Wang does double duty in demanding piano concertos by Ravel and Ligeti, while conductor Petr Popelka shows his chemistry with the orchestra in Pictures at an Exhibition.

Jan Lisiecki joins Petr Popelka and the touring Wiener Symphoniker at the Concertgebouw for Grieg's Piano Concerto. 

Herheim’s Fledermaus is a risky experiment that, miraculously, works – at least in a city that knows it so intimately.

With Petr Popelka on the podium, the Czech Philharmonic provides a memorable commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution.

Petr Popelka takes the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra to heavenly heights with help from a brilliant group of of vocalists.

All the energy is in the pit in this flat production of a time-honored favorite.

Après un Concerto pour deux pianos K365 de Mozart idéal sous les doigts de Lucas et Arthur Jussen, l'orchestre viennois et son directeur musical ont déçu dans la partition monumentale de Richard Strauss.

Le violoncelliste norvégien fait corps avec le Deuxième Concerto de Chostakovitch. À la tête de la phalange toulousaine, Petr Popelka marque également les esprits dans Dvořák et Prokofiev.

Tobias Kratzer deutet Weinbergers Oper radikal neu und holt den böhmischen Märchenwald mit einem bestens disponierten Sängerensemble erfolgreich in die Wiener Gegenwart.