Semyon Bychkov

For its season opening concert on September 25, the Czech Philharmonic presents Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64, with pianist @SeongJinCho, conducted by Semyon Bychkov.

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: semyonbychkov.com/2025/07/semyon…

“It is a Tristan well worthy of the Wagner shrine… The Bayreuth cast was peerless, the orchestra shone in the theatre’s acoustical magnificence.” (Opera Today) The Bayreuth Festival 2024 production of Tristan und Isolde is now available on Blu-ray.

A new documentary about the life and works of the composer Shostakovich, which Semyon Bychkov features in, will be available online on @ARTEen from August 9, the date which marks the 50th anniversary of his death. Details here: unfilmalapatte.fr/films.asp?id=2…

Semyon Bychkov discusses Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony, ahead of his June 2017 performance with the Academy Symphony Orchestra at the Southbank Centre. Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=kPyWij…

The Nobel Prize Concert honours the year’s Nobel Prize laureates. On December 8, Semyon Bychkov conducts the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, and Spanish violinist María Dueñas makes her Konserthuset Stockholm debut.

In September Semyon Bychkov will conduct Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder TrV 296 and Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65, with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester and soprano Christina Nilsson, at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.

"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: youtube.com/watch?v=DwnlM5…

"The final chord is the only time that melodic resolution is fully obtained. Until then, there is no resolution, and that is the nature of existence. Life does not resolve but continually transforms" - Semyon Bychkov on Wagner's Tristan and Isolde.

Semyon Bychkov is currently in rehearsals for the return of Tristan and Isolde at the Bayreuth Festival in August. Of last year's performances, Opern Magazin wrote: "Bychkov succeeded in spanning large arcs, deliberately allowing them to dissolve again and again..."

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. youtube.com/watch?v=vP5Od2…

Find all the details for this year's @WagnerFestival performances of Tristan und Isolde, conducted by Semyon Bychkov, including dates, times and the 2025 cast list, here: bayreuther-festspiele.de/en/programme/p…

Recording has been taking place in Prague of Mahler's Symphony No. 8, with the @CzechPhil conducted by Semyon Bychkov. To be released as part of the @PENTATONEmusic 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.

Some great shots captured by photographer Václav Hodina at the performance of Mahler's Eighth Symphony at the Prague Spring Festival on June 2, giving a sense of the orchestra's view.

"I have sung Mahler's 8th with many different conductors, but never with someone who has taken it so wildly. Semyon Bychkov is also a conductor who likes straightforward, quality singing with a clear intention, which I appreciate." - British mezzo soprano, @jjohnstonmezzo

Due for release on July 4, a filmed version of the 2024 Bayreuth Festival production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, conducted by Semyon Bychkov, on Blu-ray. Details from @DGclassics here: deutschegrammophon.com/en/composers/r…

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 ⬇️ www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr3/pro…

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."