Karsten Januschke
Conductor
© Jürgen Friedel
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 (which was revived last season) and revivals of Dido and Aeneas / Bluebeard’s Castle, Le nozze di Figaro, Rossini’s La gazza ladra and Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, for this new production of Offenbach's The Bandits. Recent engagements have included Die Zauberflöte (2023) at the Semperoper in Dresden, Cosi fan tutte and Don Giovanni at the National Theatre in Prague, Don Giovanni at the New National Theatre in Tokyo, and a Zerbrochene Krug (the Broken Jug) / Der Diktator, double bill at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. In previous seasons he led productions of the Zirkusprinzessin / Circus Princess at the Gärtnerplatz Theater in Munich and Volksoper in Vienna, where he also conducted Gräfin Mariza, returned to the St. Margarethen Opera Festival and conducted Die Zauberflöte at the Staatsoper in Stuttgart. 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. Recent concert work included appearances with the MDR-Sinfonieorchester, the Staatskapelle Halle, the Munich Radio Orchestra, Beethoven Orchester Bonn and the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Whilst still studying in Vienna Karsten Januschke worked at the Vienna State Opera, Theater an der Wien, and then in Bayreuth, assisting conductors including Christian Thielemann and Kirill Petrenko.