Hrůša to conduct Czech Philharmonic’s New Year concert

The Czech Philharmonic’s New Year concerts will be conducted by principal guest conductor Jakub Hrůša. The concerts will take place on December 31 and January 1 at Prague’s Rudolfinum concert hall. The concert will feature mainly works by Czech composers, including Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák and Leoš Janáček.

Hrůša, who is one of the ambassadors of the Year of Czech Music and a patron of the Smetana 200 project, is due to perform Smetana's opera Libuše with the Czech Philharmonic at the Prague Spring and Smetana’s Litomyšl festivals.