Leo Hussain

Conductor

Leo Hussain
© Marco Borggreve

This British conductor Leo Hussain is back in Frankfurt, where he conducted Salome, Hänsel und Gretel, Tosca, Carmen, Cimarosa's L'italiana in Londra and a L’heure espagnole / La vida breve double bill for this new production of Mozart's Mitridate, Re di Ponto and another revival of Weinberg's The (female) Passenger. Recent engagements have included Saul and Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Semperoper in Dresden, Don Carlo and Falstaff at the Hamburg State Opera, Salome at the Staatsoper in Hannover, Britten's Death in Venice at Welsh National Opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, Wozzeck and Die tote Stadt at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Tosca at English National Opera and San Francisco Opera, Tristan und Isolde at the Opéra national de Lorraine, Capriccio, Carmen and Eugene Onegin at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Carmen at the Royal Opera in Copenhagen, Die Zauberflöte and Enescu's Oedipe at Covent Garden, Massenet's Thaïs and Lortzing's The Armourer at the Theater an der Wien and Lakmé (in concert) at the Teatro Real in Madrid. Other engagements have taken him to places including Den Norske Opera Oslo, Santa Fe Opera, the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, the Berlin State Opera, opera houses in Lisbon and Göteborg, the George Enescu Festival and Glyndebourne. This former General Music Director of the Opéra de Rouen and the Landestheater in Salzburg is Chief Conductor of the George Enescu Philharmonic Ochestra. He also enjoyed great success working with orchestras including the Vienna, Hamburg, Bamberg, WDR and Deutsche (Berlin) symphony orchestras, the Royal Danish Orchestra and the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo.