Leo Hussain

Conductor

Loe Hussain
© Marco Borggreve

Recent highlights have included Strauss’ Capriccio and Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Bizet’s Carmen at the Royal Opera in Copenhagen, Korngold’s Die tote Stadt at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, Puccini’s Tosca at San Francisco Opera and English National Opera, Die Zauberflöte and Enescu’s Oedipe at Covent Garden, Massenet’s Thaïs and Lortzing’s Waffenschmied (Armourer) and Strauss’ Salome at the Theater an der Wien, where he is a regular guest, Berg’s Wozzeck in Toulouse and Delibes’ Lakmé (in concert) at the Teatro Real in Madrid. Plans include his debut at the Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy with Tristan und Isolde and Falstaff at the Hamburg State Opera. Now he’s back in Frankfurt, where he has conducted a L’Heure espagnole / La vida breve double bill, Weinberg’s Die Passagierin / The (female) Passenger, Tosca, Carmen and last season’s new production of Cimarosa’s L’italiana in Londra, for Hänsel und Gretel. Other recent engagements have taken this British conductor, highly respected for his Mozart and in-depth knowledge of the Second Viennese School and key 20th century works, to places including Den Norske Opera Oslo, Santa Fe, the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, Staatsoper in Berlin, Lisbon, Göteborg, the George Enescu Festival and Glyndebourne, for Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia. This former General Music Director of Opéra de Rouen and the Salzburg Landestheater has also enjoyed great success in concert with orchestras including the Vienna, Hamburg and Bamberg symphony orchestras, the WDR and Deutsche symphony orchestras, the Royal Danish Orchestra and NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo.