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CologneWiener Symphoniker

© Mao Fujita
Mozart, Mahler
Vienna Symphony Orchestra; Petr Popelka; Mao Fujita

AntwerpWiener Symphoniker / Petr Popelka

© Vojtěch Brtnický
Mozart, Mahler
Vienna Symphony Orchestra; Petr Popelka; Mao Fujita

SofiaWiener Symphoniker

© Sofia Philharmonic
Stoyanov, Mozart, Schubert
Vienna Symphony Orchestra; Petr Popelka; Mao Fujita

Vienna"Hör-Bar" mit Petr Popelka

© Julia Wesely
Petr Popelka; Members of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra

ViennaVienna Symphony Orchestra

© Vojtech Brtni
Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky
Vienna Symphony Orchestra; Petr Popelka; Francesco Piemontesi

StockholmBeethoven’s Missa Solemnis

© Joseph Karl Stieler
Beethoven: Mass in D major, “Missa solemnis”, Op.123
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Petr Popelka; Swedish Radio Choir; Eric Ericson Chamber Choir; Julia Kleiter; Christina Bock
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Fire and substance from Yuja Wang at the Musikverein

Yuja Wang and the Wiener Symphoniker © Julia Wesely | Musikverein Wien
Yuja Wang tackles piano concertos by Bartók and Barber – plus three encores – to delight the Musikverein audience before the Wiener Symphoniker plays persuasive Schumann. 
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Petr Popelka delivers a thrilling opening for Prague Spring

Peptr Popelka and the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra © Petra Hajská
With Petr Popelka on the podium, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra brings a native feel and colorful exuberance to a cultural icon.
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Matthew Aucoin’s Song of the Reappeared premieres in Chicago

Julia Bullock © Amy Aiello Photography
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.
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Yuja Wang serves an iridescent musical feast in Cleveland

Yuja Wang and The Cleveland Orchestra © Yevhen Gulenko, courtesy of The Cleveland Orchestra
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.
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Wiener Symphoniker parties in style at the Concertgebouw

Petr Popelka © Khalil Baalbaki
Jan Lisiecki joins Petr Popelka and the touring Wiener Symphoniker at the Concertgebouw for Grieg's Piano Concerto. 
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Stefan Herheim’s bold Fledermaus at MusikTheater an der Wien

Dancers and Alexander Strobele (Frosch) © Karl Forster
Herheim’s Fledermaus is a risky experiment that, miraculously, works – at least in a city that knows it so intimately.
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UnknownEuropiano - The Most Beautiful Piano Concertos from Across Europe

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Brahms, Grieg, Chopin, Beethoven, Ravel, Mozart, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Lyatoshynsky
Vienna Symphony Orchestra; Petr Popelka; Yulianna Avdeeva; Nobuyuki Tsujii; Alim Beisembayev; Eric Lu
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Petr Popelka named next Generalmusikdirektor in Bavaria

Serge Dorny, Petr Popelka and Markus Blume © Geoffroy Schied
The role of Generalmusikdirektor includes leading both the Bayerische Staatsoper and the Staatsorchester.