Manuel Hernández-Silva returns to the Český Krumlov Festival in the Czech Republic to lead the Prague Philharmonia in a Spanish program that includes orchestral music, a guitar concert and zarzuela numbers. He will be accompanied on this occassion by other great Spanish artists such as the guitarist Rafael Aguirre, the soprano Beatriz Díaz and the tenor Pablo García López. The program will begin with Musas y Resuello, by Pacho Flores, which will premiere in the Czech Republic; the Concierto de Aranjuez, by Joaquín Rodrigo, and will feature in the second part a selection of romances, duets and orchestral numbers from zarzuelas by Soutullo, Moreno Torroba, Moreno Buendía, Chapí, Barrera, Giménez and Fernández Caballero. The concert will take place at the Pivovarská Zahrada next Saturday, July 22 at 8:30 p.m.
Hernández-Silva already conducted a similar program last season together with the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, obtaining an overwhelming success in the three concerts they offered of this project, which was video-recorded. On that occasion he was also accompanied by Díaz and Aguirre, while the tenor roles were sung by the Colombian tenor César Gutiérrez. With this concert in the Czech Republic, Hernández-Silva closes a great season that began at the Festival de Música Sacra de Bogotá with the monumental Symphony No. 3 by Henryk Górecki, and continued in Cyprus with Pacho Flores before returning to Spain, where he conducted the Valencia orchestra in a subscription concert at the Iturbi Piano Award, and the Orchestra of the Escuela Superior de Música del País Vasco (Musikene).
Javier Perianes and Hernández-Silva at the Ceski Krumlov Festival in 2017. Photo: Libor Sváček
He then traveled to the US to conduct again the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, beginning an intense period that also took him to France to lead the Orchestra National des Pays de la Loire and then to Norway for a fruitful debut with the Arctic Philharmonic that earned him a new invitation for the 2025/26 season. Afterwards, he returned to America to conduct the opening concert of the Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra season before facing a double invitation with the Galician Symphony, where he also had the opportunity to conduct its young orchestra. He would yet return to Latin America on two other occassions to conduct a subscription concert of the National Symphony of Colombia and to attend a second invitation in the season of the Buenos Aires Philharmonic. Next season, Hernández-Silva will have a greater presence in Spain with returns to orchestras such as Granada, Córdoba or Murcia, while abroad he is expected in Poland, Sweden, Argentina or Singapore.