SCHEDULE

Lada’s recent credits include a new production of Eugene Onegin with Opera Holland Park, the UK premiere of Svadba by Canadian/Serbian composer Ana Sokolović for the Waterperry Opera Festival, Eugene Onegin for Opera West Green House, and an opera double bill at the Royal Scottish Conservatoire of the UK premiere and orchestral version of Four Sisters, and an opera by British composer Elena Langer. 

Lada Valešová © Frances Marshall
Pavel Haas. Šarlatán (The Charlatan )
September and October 2024
The National Moravian Silesian Theatre, Ostrava, Czech Republic

Assistant Conductor

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Janáček Festival Brno
5 November 2024
Reduta Theatre (Mozart Hall)

Concert with Nicky Spence, Navarra Quartete a musicians of the Brno National Opera.

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Leoš Janáček Jenůfa
15 January – 1 February. 2025
Royal Ballet and Opera House

Conductor: Jakub Hrůša
Cover Conductor, Assistant Conductor, Language Advisor

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Recital with Natalya Romaniw, Soprano
31 March 2025, 7.30PM
Wigmore Hall London

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PAST EVENTS

ChoralFest
3–11 August 2024
Dartington Summer School, Devon

Tutor at ChoralFest at Dartington Summer School, Devon

Two Widows
19–20 June 2024
Birmingham Opera Company and Smetana 200 Festival Smetana Litomyšl

Debut with Birmingham Opera Company as Two Widows' Music Director and Conductor, with one of the best quartets in Europe ŠKAMPOVO KVARTETO alongside pianist Filip Martinka. 

Opera Double Bill
8 & 10 May 2024
Royal Academy of Music
Vocal at Six: Lada Valešová Project
5 March 2024
Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Lada Valesova directs a programme of Russian and Czech Song with the Post gradual Singers and Accompanists. Programme to include songs by Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Sviridov, Elena Langer, Prokofiev, Smetana, Dvořák, Novák, Haas and Martinů.

Where: Milton Court Concert Hall
When: 6 pm
Tickets: Free Entry

WoCo Excel Programme
25–26 January 2024
Royal Philharmonic Society Excel Programme

Glasshouse International Centre for Music with the Royal Northern Sinfonia

Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera
21 September – 7 October 2023
The Cockpit Theatre

Musical director and conductor for this bold and imaginative musical comedy, directed by Adam Nichols with Julia Mintzer

Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera
11–15 September 2023
The Minack Theatre

Musical director and conductor for this bold and imaginative musical comedy, directed by Adam Nichols with Julia Mintzer

Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera
31 August – 6 September 2023
Roman Theatre, St Albans

Musical director and conductor for this bold and imaginative musical comedy, directed by Adam Nichols with Julia Mintzer

Elena Langer: Four Sisters
March 2023
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Scottish premiere of Elena Langer's Four Sisters, as part of the RCS Opera Course's double bill

César Cui: A Feast in Time of Plague
March 2023
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Scottish premiere of Russian composer César Cui's A Feast in Time of Plague, as part of the RCS Opera Course's double bill

Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen
4–13 November 2022
Hampstead Garden Opera

Winner of the "Off West End Awards 2023” in Opera

Women Conductors Programme
2022–2023
Royal Philharmonic Society

In partnership with Sage Gateshead and the Royal Northern Sinfonia: one of six participants selected internationally.

Ana Sokolović: Svadba
18–20 August 2022
Waterperry Opera Festival

UK professional premiere of this women-led production in Serbian, directed by Rebecca Meltzer

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
31 May – 25 June 2022
Opera Holland Park

Conducting the City of London Sinfonia, directed by Julia Burbach

Puccini: Tosca
November 2021
Royal Opera House

Assistant Conductor to Oksana Lyniv

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
31 July – 2 August 2021
West Green House Opera

Conducting the West Green House Orchestra

Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
14–20 June 2021
Opera Holland Park

Associate Conductor for Young Artists performances

Janáček: Diary of One Who Disappeared
September 2020
Scottish Opera

Assistant Conductor to Stuart Stratford for the orchestral version of this production created for the Lammermuir Festival 2020

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Iolanta
August 2019
Opera Holland Park

Assistant Conductor to Sian Edwards, directed by Olivia Fuchs

Janáček: Diary of One Who Disappeared
2017–2022
International tour

Music Director for this international tour, directed by Ivo van Hove

Lada Valešová © Frances Marshall

“….superbly directed by the Czech conductor Lada Valesova.” 

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