SCHEDULE

Lada’s upcoming and recent credits include Assistant and Cover Conductor to Jakub Hrůša on Jenůfa and The Makropolous Case at the Royal Ballet and Opera, a Rehearsal and Assistant Conductor to Jakub Hrůša at the concert performance of Jenůfa with Bamberg Symphony and Conductor on The Rape Of Lucrecia at the Royal Academy of Music.

Lada Valešová © Frances Marshall
The Makropulos Case
4–21 November 2025
Royal Ballet and Opera

Cover Conductor & Czech Language

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National Youth Opera Aotearoa
19–31 January 2026
Napier, New Zealand

Mentor and Coach

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Rusalka
22–28 March 2026
Irish National Opera

Cover Conductor & Czech Language

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Summer Opera Performance (TBA )
May 2026
Royal Academy of Music

Conductor

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Jakub Hrůša and Daniele Koch
15 June 2026
Bamberger Symphoniker

Rehearsal & Assistant Conductor, Czech Language

Jakub Hrůša Dirigent
Daniela Koch Flöte
Corinne Winters Sopran
Eliška Weissová Mezzosopran
Nicky Spence Tenor
Thomas Atkins Tenor
Jindřich Feld Konzert für Flöte und Orchester
Leoš Janáček »Jenůfa« 2. Akt (Konzertante Aufführung)

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PAST EVENTS

Elben Philharmonie
22 September 2025
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Jakub Hrůša

Cover Conductor & Czech Language

Jakub Hrůša and Friends in Concert
20 September 2025
Royal Ballet and Opera

Cover Conductor & Czech Language

Conducting workshop
4 June 2025
Woddinggam School, Surrey

Lada will lead a conducting workshop for the music students of the school.
Internal school event.

Royal Northern Sinfonia and Pierre-Laurent Aimard
16 May 2025
The Glasshouse International Centre for Music

Assistant Conductor to Principal Conductor Dinis Sousa

Featuring:
Maurice Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin
Maurice Ravel Pavanne pour une infanta défunte
Maurice Ravel Piano Concerto in G major
Ma Mére I’Oye (Full Ballet)

Life, Liberation and Legacy
15th April 2025
The Imperial War Museum.

Lada joins the members of the English Chamber Orchestra to perform a programme marking the 80th anniversary of liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by the British Army.

Janáček: From the House of the Dead
22 March 2025
Concertgebouw Amsterdam

Assistant Conductor to Principal Conductor Karina Canellakis with Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Netherlands Radio Choir

       

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

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

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

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

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

Assistant Conductor

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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