Thomas Guggeis
Conductor / General Music Director
© Christian Kleiner
Thomas Guggeis took up the posts of General Music Director of Oper Frankfurt and Artistic Director of the Frankfurt Museum Concerts in 2023/24. New productions of Le Grand Macabre, Le nozze di Figaro, Lulu, Tannhäuser and Parsifal were followed in 2025/26 by Così fan tutte, Boris Godunov and Turandot and revivals of Peter Grimes and Tristan und Isolde and next season you can hear him conducting new productions of Chausson's Le Roi Arthus, Un ballo in maschera and Martinů's Greek Passion and revivals of Die Walküre and Das Rheingold.
After studying in Munich and Milan and working as an assistant at the Staatsoper in Berlin he was a Kapellmeister at the Staatsoper in Stuttgart from 2018 - 2020. After enjoying great success with a new production of Salome at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin he was named Staatkapellmeister in 2020/21, leading a new production of Daphne and revivals of Der Ring des Nibelungen, Lohengrin, Elektra, Ariadne auf Naxos, Don Giovanni, Die Zauberflöte, La traviata, Falstaff, Hänsel und Gretel, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Samson et Dalila and Katja Kabanová.
He's a regular guest at the Vienna State Opera (for Die tote Stadt, Salome, La traviata, Ariadne auf Naxos and Falstaff ) the Metropolitan Opera (The Flying Dutchman) and La Scala Milan (for Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail) and he returns to the Maggio Musicale in Florence in 2026/27.
Much sought-after for concert work, he has appeared with leading orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle in Dresden and Berlin, the Bayerische Staatsorchester and Philharmonic in Munich, the SWR Symphonieorchester and Vienna Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, Orchester National de France, the Filarmonica della Scala, the Cleveland Orchestra, the London Philharmonic and Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia Roma. Highlights during the 2026/27 season - alongside re-invitations to Paris, Florence, Rome, Milan and London - include his debuts with the Orchester Philharmonique de Radio France, the NDR Elb Philharmonie Orchester and the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo. He enjoys working closely with the Boulez Ensemble, with whom he regurlarly explores masterpieces of contemporary music.