Karsten Januschke
Conductor
© Thomas Stimmel
Karsten Januschke's back at Oper Frankfurt, where he began his career as a coach in 2008, was made a Kapellmeister and built up a broad and varied repertoire, returning in recent seasons for new productions including Pergolesi’s La serva padrona / Stabat mater, the first performances in Germany of Neuwirth’s Lost Highway, Fioravanti’s Le cantatrici villane and Handel's Tamerlano and revivals of Dido and Aeneas / Bluebeard’s Castle, Le nozze di Figaro, Rossini’s La gazza ladra, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and last season's new production of Offenbach's The Bandits, for this new production of Aribert Reimann's Melusine. He enjoys close links to Prague, where he recently conducted works including Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni and The Flying Dutchman. Other recent engagements have included Die Zauberflöte at the Semperoper in Dresden, Don Giovanni at the New National Theatre in Tokyo, a Zerbrochene Krug (the Broken Jug) / Der Diktator, double bill at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and working at the Gärtnerplatz Theater in Munich, the Volksoper in Vienna, the St. Margarethen Opera and Staatsoper in Stuttgart. Earlier on in the 2024/25 season he conducted a Requiem for a Young Poet / Rothko Chapel double bill at the Staatstheater in Darmstadt, and Zauberflöte at the Komisch Oper in Berlin. A new production of Humperdinck's Königskinder at the Tirol Festival in Erl in 2021 was followed by Chausson’s Le Roi Arthus in 2022 and Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa in 2024. Recent concert work included appearances with the MDR-Sinfonieorchester, the Staatskapelle Halle, the Munich Radio Orchestra, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Heidelberg Philharmonic and the Staatsorchester in Darmstadt. Whilst still studying in Vienna Karsten Januschke worked at the Vienna State Opera, Theater an der Wien, and then Bayreuth, assisting conductors including Christian Thielemann and Kirill Petrenko.