Prague Spring 2026 Programme

Join us on May 12 for the start of the Prague Spring Open Air Festival in Riegrovy sady!

The three best flautists compete for the top spot in the Prague Spring Competition performing works by J. S. Bach and Jindřich Feld. Come and support them and win tickets for one of the festival concerts.

Smetana’s My Country performed by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and Petr Popelka

The finals of the piano competition will unfold in a Romantic spirit. Celebrated concertos by Chopin, Rachmaninov, Brahms and Dvořák, featuring a large symphony orchestra.

Due to illness, Magdalena Kožená is unfortunately unable to perform at today’s concert

A romantic symphony by Robert Schumann, set in contrast with the vibrant firework display in Igor Stravinsky’s music for the ballet The Firebird

The finest piano duo on the scene today in collaboration with the legendary British orchestra Academy of St Martin in the Fields.

The festival’s twelfth conducting debut will be caught up in a whirl of dance. Copland, Barber, Dvořák and Ginastera performed by Ondřej Soukup, soprano Simona Šaturová and Prague Philharmonia.

The menacingly beautiful story of Bartók’s Miraculous Mandarin, the festival premiere of Luboš Fišer’s Violin Concerto, and the big return of Patricia Kopatchinskaja

One of the world’s best early music ensembles Helsinki Baroque Orchestra making its festival debut with an exploratory programme from the Czech archives

Dvořák’s Cello Concerto performed by Truls Mørk and Sibelius’s Lemminkäinen suite, conducted by “Finnish miracle”, Klaus Mäkelä

Tomáš Netopil, stars of the New York Met, and Prague Symphony Orchestra in the dramatic and entertaining legend based on Goethe’s Faust. All roads lead to hell!

Barbara Hannigan as singer and conductor of the Czech Philharmonic in the Czech premiere of her own fabled adaptation of Francis Poulenc’s opera La Voix humaine, featuring a live video screening.

An oratorio by Jules Massenet on the last days of Jesus Christ from the perspective of Mary Magdalene. Featuring stars of Covent Garden, the Vienna State Opera, and the Met, accompanied by the National Theatre Orchestra under the direction of Robert Jindra.

Haydn’s late masterpiece performed by Václav Luks conducting the Orchestra & Choir of the Age of Enlightenment, one of the world’s most celebrated period instrument ensembles

Bruckner’s “boldest” symphony and Shostakovich’s cello concerto with Yuya Mizuno, winner of the Prague Spring IMC 2025, are brought to you by Berlin’s Grammy Award-winning “orchestral think tank”.

The Prague Spring debut of a piano rising star Lukas Sternath, Lahav Shani and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in works by Schumann, Brahms and Johan Wagenaar

What links George Gershwin, one of the greatest hitmakers of the 20th century, with Arnold Schoenberg? Barbara Hannigan and the Czech Philharmonic’s Crazy Ride in a programme full of contrasts and surprises.