Director General of the Paris Opera, Alexander Neef, has announced the appointment of Semyon Bychkov as Music Director of the Paris Opera, from August 2028, for four seasons. 📷 James Bort / Opera de Paris

This summer, Semyon Bychkov returns to the Bayreuth Festival to conduct Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde in the iconic Festspielhaus. The revival of Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson’s 2024 production will be performed on August 3, 10, 13, 23 and 25. More here 👇

A new documentary about the life and works of the composer Shostakovich, in which Semyon Bychkov features, will be available online on @artefr.bsky.social from August 9, the date which marks the 50th anniversary of his death. Details here: www.unfilmalapatte.fr/films.asp?id...

"The performance once again demonstrates the immense calibre of the Bayreuth Festival choir & orchestra. This requires a respected conductor who understands his craft. Semyon Bychkov is just such a Wagner-calibrated musician" - Online Merker on the Blu-ray of Tristan and Isolde.

Today marks the 165th anniversary of the birth of the composer Gustav Mahler. "Mahler himself said it would take many years after he is no longer in this world before his music will be understood" - Semyon Bychkov on his work. Hear more here 👇

January 4, 2021, marked exactly 125 years since the Czech Philharmonic's 1st concert. Here, Chief Conductor Semyon Bychkov talks about the orchestra's uniqueness, which he says lies in the personalities of the musicians and their passion for music.

Recording has been taking place in Prague of Mahler's Symphony No. 8, with the Czech Philharmonic conducted by Semyon Bychkov. To be released as part of the Pentatone Music Mahler Cycle box set next spring. Find Semyon Bychkov's full discography: semyonbychkov.com/discography/

Semyon Bychkov is to conduct a new production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, directed by British actor and director Ralph Fiennes. Performances will take place at Opéra national de Paris next year from January 26 to February 27.

The opening of the Prague Spring Festival - Semyon Bychkov conducting the Czech Philharmonic in Smetana's Má vlast on May 12, at the Smetana Hall in Prague - will be broadcast by WDR on June 12. See link for details ⬇️

Today marks the 161st anniversary of the birth of composer Richard Strauss. Of his life and work, Semyon Bychkov said: "Strauss was just 34 when he wrote Ein Heldenleben. It's extraordinary that someone would write a complete musical autobiography at such a young age."

"Just short of ecstatic" - Bachtrack on the performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 8, which closed the Prague Spring Festival last week. Read the full article here ⬇️

"Bychkov's Mahler was romantically exuberant, dramatically striking, emotionally yearning and lyrically shimmering" - KlasikaPlus

"Mahler’s Symphony No.8, performed as the final concert of the Prague Spring Festival, brought this year's 80th anniversary edition of the festival to a dignified close. The performance was riveting in all respects" - Opera Plus

The magnificent Mahler's Symphony No. 8 brought the 80th Prague Spring Festival to a close in the Smetana Hall last night. 📷 Roman Vondrouš and Václav Hodina

Beautiful pictures captured at last night's performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 8 at the Prague Spring Festival, giving a sense of the scale of the number of musicians and singers taking part. 📷 Václav Hodina

As part of Deutsche Grammophon's global media partnership with the Bayreuth Festival, a filmed version of the 2024 production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, conducted by Semyon Bychkov, is to be released digitally and on Blu-ray on July 4, 2025.

Not quite a thousand, but still hugely impressive! This rehearsal picture gives a sense of the scale of the choir taking part in Mahler's Symphony No. 8 - Symphony of a Thousand - in Prague on Monday and Tuesday, with the Czech Philharmonic and Semyon Bychkov.

Some behind-the-scenes images from Semyon Bychkov's interview with Ian Willoughby of Radio Prague International at the Vaclav Havel Library in Prague earlier this month. Semyon met with Iva Baranová, of the library's board of trustees, during his visit. 📷 Ondřej Němec

"The title itself is "My Country" and all of us have one. It is about the roots that everyone has: there is a feeling of identification that makes it universal." - Semyon Bychkov on Má vlast, which was composed between 1874 and 1879 by the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana.

"The style was emblematic of Bychkov’s larger work with the orchestra, fiery, fast-paced and finely balanced, every layer of the music clear and distinct" - @bachtrack.com on the opening Prague Spring concert of Smetana’s Má vlast.

"We are interpreters... serving the work of art created by someone who has a supreme gift." Music director of the Czech Philharmonic, Semyon Bychkov, in conversation with Ian Willoughby of Radio Prague International. 📻 Listen here 👇

An opportunity to hear Semyon Bychkov in conversation with journalist Ian Willoughby of Radio Prague. 7pm, Wednesday, May 14, at the Václav Havel Library in Prague. Admission free.

Next Monday, the Czech Philharmonic and @semyonbychkov.bsky.social open the Prague Spring Festival with the traditional opener, Smetana's Má vlast. Check out our full festival listings: bachtrack.com/festival/pra...

"When they see someone who is meant to lead, they see the commitment... they see the passion. And they are happy to join in" - Semyon Bychkov on leading an orchestra.

"The contrasts achieved in the central section’s scherzo were fabulous... The adagio was unforgettable." - Javier Pérez writing for Platea Magazine on Semyon Bychkov and the Concertgebouw Orchestra's performance of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 in Amsterdam.

The Czech Philharmonic and Semyon Bychkov's recording of Smetana's Má vlast has won the BBC Music Magazine 2025 Orchestral Award! 👏

Actor Ralph Fiennes is to helm a new production of Tchaikovsky’s opera ‘Eugene Onegin, with most performances conducted by Semyon Bychkov. The new production will run from January 26 to February 27 at the Paris Palais Garnier. More from Classic FM here 👇 www.classicfm.com/composers/tc...

"A fierce indictment of oppression and violence, and a most compelling requiem for their victims everywhere." On April 24, 25 and 27, in Amsterdam, Semyon Bychkov leads the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Dmitri Shostakovich’s monumental ‘Leningrad’ Symphony.

@semyonbychkov.bsky.social supplies an extraordinarily well-played account of Mahler’s Third, writes Jon Blumhofer, and Paavo Järvi’s Mahler’s Fifth avoids the more idiosyncratic excesses of Leonard Bernstein’s superb 1987 Vienna recording. @pentatonemusic.bsky.social artsfuse.org/307295/class...

"Music being a language - when we speak a language within which we are born, our mother tongue, we will not speak it as a textbook language. We will speak the living language people living in that land speak" - Semyon Bychkov on how the Czech Philharmonic interpret Czech music.

Semyon Bychkov is to work alongside British actor and director Ralph Fiennes on a new production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at Opéra National de Paris next February. The production will be led by Fiennes, with music direction by Bychkov, who will later hand to Case Scaglione

Today marks the anniversary of the birth of composer Modest Mussorgsky on March 21, 1839. Here the Oslo Philharmonic, conducted by Semyon Bychkov, performs Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky, at the Oslo Concert Hall in 2022. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwJM...

📻 March 28! Czech Radio will broadcast the concert in Prague, with the Czech Philharmonic and Jiří Vodička performing Shostakovich Violin Concerto No.1 and No.5. From 7.30pm local time.

This portrait of conductor Semyon Bychkov, "The Horizon Moves with You", released in 2005, and shot mainly in St Petersburg, offers a fascinating insight into his early life and the development of his career. 📺 Watch it here ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy3v...

"Under Bychkov the orchestra sounded rich and resonant, never forced" - the Financial Times on Friday's concert in London

"The finale was luminous at times, near-grotesque at others, its apotheosis magnificently, fearlessly intense." - Flora Willson reviews Saturday night's London concert for The Guardian.

★★★★★ @shekukm.bsky.social #CzechPhilharmonic @semyonbychkov.bsky.social @barbicancentre.bsky.social - From Russia, with tough love: cellist, conductor and a great orchestra play Shostakovich for today - review @boydtonkin.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

"The sheer beauty and polished sheen of a performance that seduces with its sincerity… as intriguing as it is rewarding." @semyonbychkov.bsky.social and Czech Philharmonic's Mahler 3 on @pentatonemusic.bsky.social. My Limelight magazine Editor's Choice review: limelight-arts.com.au/reviews/mahl...

Tonight - London! With cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason. "An orchestra blazing burnished colours, rich string tone, and boundless refinement, the Czech Philharmonic launches a two-day residency with a concert of Shostakovich" - The Barbican. Details: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

"In the final Allegro non-troppo, Semyon Bychkov made Shostakovich's message unmistakably clear with his differentiated reading: no matter how barbaric the brutality, individuality can never be completely extinguished" - Die Presse

Czech Philharmonic Chief Conductor and Music Director Semyon Bychkov with British cellist Sheku-Kanneh Mason, pictured together here during rehearsals. 📷 Petra Chodura

The Czech Philharmonic's European tour starts in Vienna on March 2, with a concert honouring the 50th anniversary of Shostakovich's death. Led by Semyon Bychkov and along with cellist @shekukm.bsky.social they will perform Shostakovich's 1st Cello Concerto and Symphony No. 5.

"The members of the Czech Philharmonic were playing Má vlast even before they were born" – Semyon Bychkov The Czech Philharmonic and Semyon Bychkov's recording of Smetana’s masterpiece is nominated for the BBC Music Magazine Awards. Vote here: www.classical-music.com/awards/2025-... Thank you!

"Mason plays as if the cello were a part of him, relaxed, with his gaze fixed outside, somewhere in the distance, not even looking at the fingers and fingerboard. "It was obvious that Bychkov was in his element" - Opera+ Magazine.

Pictures from dress rehearsals in Prague on Wednesday, with British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason. Tonight Sheku joins Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic at the Rudolfinum for the second in a series of three evening concerts, to perform Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto.

Tonight in Prague winner of the 2016 BBC Young Musician Award British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, joins the Czech Philharmonic, conducted by Semyon Bychkov, to perform Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto. Details here: ceskafilharmonie.cz/en/event/313... 📷 Ollie Ali

You can read the article at moto-perpetuo.com/the-czech-ph... @semyonbychkov.bsky.social

24-year-old cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason makes his Czech Philharmonic debut on February 19 in Prague with Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto. The series also features Haydn’s Symphony No. 44 in E minor & Beethoven's Symphony No. 2 in D major. Conducted by Semyon Bychkov. 📷 Ollie Ali

The Czech Philharmonic's spring 2025 tour of Europe will include residencies at Vienna’s Musikverein, London’s Barbican, Philharmonie de Paris and performances at the Concertgebouws in Amsterdam and Bruges. Details here 👉 semyonbychkov.com/schedule/

In this film by Boosey & Hawkes to mark the 50th anniversary of Dmitri Shostakovich's death, Semyon Bychkov explains how the composer can now be viewed as a miraculous survivor, coding into his works the fears and aspirations of the Soviet people.