He also led the first performances outside Russia of two operas by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and the Czech premieres of seven operettas by Jacques Offenbach.

From 1862 he was choirmaster and assistant conductor at the Provisional Theatre, where he conducted operas such as Verdi's Il trovatore, Donizetti's Belisario, Rossini's Otello, Lortzing's Zar und Zimmermann (Tsar and Carpenter), Meyerbeer's Dinorah, and Flotow's Martha and Alessandro Stradella.

[1] From 1862 to 1866 he also appeared as a bass singer in smaller solo roles such as Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville, Méru in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, Pedro in Conradin Kreutzer's Das Nachtlager in Granada, and Ruiz in Verdi's Il trovatore.

[4] At the same concert (or 17 March 1877)[5] he conducted the premiere of Smetana's symphonic poem Šarka, another part of the Má vlast cycle.

[6] He conducted the premieres of Smetana's operas The Kiss (7 November 1876), The Secret (18 September 1878), and the revised version of The Two Widows (17 March 1878).

[1][7] Dvořák composed his Piano Concerto in G minor during August and September 1876, at the request of the pianist Karel Slavkovský, who gave the premiere in Prague on 24 March 1878, with Adolf Čech conducting.

[12][13] On 23 December 1880 at the concert of the Association of Musical Artists in Prague, Adolf Čech premiered Dvořák's Stabat Mater, his first work on a religious theme.

However, events in Richter's personal life and anti-Czech sentiment in Vienna, combined with the fact that Dvořák was virtually unknown there (none of his symphonies had been published at this time), caused its continual postponement.

[5][14][15][16][17] The opening of the National Theatre in Prague on 11 June 1881 was celebrated with the world premiere of Smetana's opera Libuše, conducted by Adolf Čech.

[1][18][19] On 28 July 1882, in Prague, Čech conducted the first production outside Russia of any opera by Tchaikovsky, the Czech premiere of The Maid of Orleans.

[22] On 2 November 1887 he led a concert celebrating the centenary of the world premiere in Prague of Mozart's Don Giovanni.

[1] Fibich's opera Šárka was premiered on 28 December 1897 on the stage of the National Theatre in Prague with Adolf Čech conducting.