Jakub Hrůša

Hans Rott, Symphony No 1/Mahler review | classical album of the week

His friend Mahler called him a genius, but there’s little in this recording – fine though it is – of Rott’s first symphony to persuade us of that

Andrew Clements

27, Oct, 2022 @4:18 PM

Royal Opera House announces Jakub Hrůša as its new music director

The Czech-born conductor will take over from Antonio Pappano in 2025. He talks exclusively to the Guardian about what shape the opera house will take under his musical leadership

Imogen Tilden

18, Oct, 2022 @5:00 AM

The week in classical: Lohengrin; The Paradis Files

An exemplary revival brings David Alden’s 2018 Wagner production into sharp focus. And an overlooked contemporary of Mozart’s is celebrated by Errollyn Wallen

Fiona Maddocks

23, Apr, 2022 @11:30 AM

Lohengrin review – powerful and prescient production strips Wagner’s opera of its romance

A revival of David Alden’s war-torn staging of Wagner’s early opera finds disturbing new resonance with current events; in the pit Jakub Hrůša has an unerring sense of the work’s structure

Martin Kettle

20, Apr, 2022 @12:22 PM

Novák: Toman and the Wood Nymph, etc review | Andrew Clements's classical album of the week

‘Vítězslav Novák is worth knowing about and we must play his music,’ says Hrůša, and the later works have a pictorial energy that is vividly realised here

Andrew Clements

24, Sep, 2020 @2:00 PM

Mahler versus Slowthai! - what happened when our pop and classical critics traded jobs?

Kitty Empire and Fiona Maddocks stepped into each other’s shoes to review the NME awards and the Philharmonia

Kitty Empire and Fiona Maddocks

29, Mar, 2020 @12:00 PM

Vanessa review – Barber's opera finds its time with intelligent, gripping staging

Keith Warner’s new production features a compelling performance by Emma Bell at its centre, with the London Philharmonic under Jakub Hrůša also very impressive

Tim Ashley

06, Aug, 2018 @12:14 PM

Carmen review – Bizet meets Busby Berkeley

Big numbers and bohemian loucheness characterise Barrie Kosky’s uneven production

Tim Ashley

07, Feb, 2018 @12:06 PM

A Midsummer Night's Dream review – Peter Hall revival retains its magic

Thirty-five years since Hall’s original staging of Britten’s opera, it is still a thing of wonder, with its unsettling sexual tension and sharp psychological insights

Tim Ashley

14, Aug, 2016 @10:11 AM