Jiří Rožeň
Conductor
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The Czech conductor Jiří Rožeň, voted »Up and Coming Artist of 2025« by Opernwelt magazine, is making his debut in Frankfurt with this revival of our wonderful Weill / Orff The Tsar Wants his Photograph Taken / Cleven Woman double bill. During the 2025/26 season he led the first performance in Czech Republic of Cerha's Spiegel / Mirror with the Hradec Králové Philharmonie, worked with the Prague Philharmonic and Centre for New Music in Ostrava, the Enescu Festival in Bucharest, conducted the world premiere of Ana Sokolović's Clown(s) at the Opéra de Montréal and Dvořák's Stabat Mater with the National Orchestra of Ireland. Other recent engagements included the first performances in the Czech Republic of Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre and Schulhoff's Flammen (nominated for an International Opera Award) at the State Opera in Prague, where he has also conducted Schönberg's Erwartung, Weill's Seven Deadly Sins and Dvořák's Rusalka. He led Nono's Prometeo in Ostrava, Smetana's The Bartered Bride at Göteborg Opera and Janáček's Katja Kabanova at the National Opera in Bergen and has worked with many leading orchestras in the Czeck Republic, Great Britain, Germany (including the Bochum Symphony, the Deutsch Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, MDR-Sinfonieorchester in Leipzig, Hessen's Staatsorchester in Wiesbaden, the Staatsorchester Kassel), the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Scandinavia, Spain, the USA, Japan and China. He was invited to take part in European Festivals. including the Prague Spring and Dvořák Prague festivals, the Internationale Leoš Janáček Music Festival and the Janáček-Brno Festival. He studied in Prague, Salzburg, Hamburg, Zürich and Glasgow and spent two years assisting conductors with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, working closely with Sir Donald Runnicles and Thomas Dausgaard.