I never choose the cautious option’: Royal Opera’s Jakub Hrůša on collaboration, control and conducting Wagner

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• 01I find it wonderful!” he says. “I could have chosen to do it in my own way, in 10 years’ time, somewhere else – but I’m here, I’m the music director, the Ring should be done and wants to be done in its entirety, and I am courageous.”.
• 02Hrůša conducted Kosky’s staging of Carmen here in 2018, and they worked together at the 2024 Salzburg festival on Katya Kabanova by Janáček – another son of Brno, Hrůša’s home town.
• 03His 22-year tenure as music director was the longest and most stable in the Royal Opera House’s history, so those are big shoes to fill, both in the Ring and in the role more generally.
• 04It was to the UK, however, that he moved with his family, in 2018, soon after he had made his Covent Garden debut with that Kosky Carmen.
• 05I never choose the cautious option’: Royal Opera’s Jakub Hrůša on collaboration, control and conducting Wagner.
• 06His predecessor-but-one in that role was Jiří Bělohlávek, and he’s proud to be following in his late teacher’s footsteps. “I started studying with him when I was 18 and then the relationship turned into a real friendship.
• 07This isn’t surprising either given that most of his positions so far – with the exception of three years spent as music director of Glyndebourne on Tour, starting in 2010 – have been with symphony orchestras.