Thomas Guggeis takes up the posts of General Music Director of Oper Frankfurt and Artistic Director of the Frankfurt Museum Concerts at the beginning of the 2023/24 season. He made his debut in Frankfurt in May 2021 with Mozart's Requiem, which was followed by Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos, and caused an international stir in 2018 when he stepped in at short notice to conduct the opening night of a new production of Salome at the Staatsoper in Berlin, who named him Staatskapellmeister in 2019/20. After studying in Munich and Milan, and time spent assisting at the Staatsoper in Berlin, he was Kapellmeister at the Staatsoper in Stuttgart from 2018-2020, conducting works including La Bohème, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Madama Butterfly, Der Prinz von Homburg and Der Freischütz. During his time as Staatskapellmeister in Berlin he enjoyed great success with a new production of Daphne, performances of the Der Ring des Nibelungen, Samson et Dalila, Katja Kabanová, La traviata, Der fliegende Holländer, Die Zauberflöte, Lohengrin, Ariadne auf Naxos, Hänsel und Gretel, Don Giovanni, Elektra, Falstaff and The Merry Wives of Windsor. He works regulaly at the Vienna State Opera, where he recently conducted Die tote Stadt, Salome, La traviata and Ariadne auf Naxos. He made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in May 2023 withThe Flying Dutchman , which he is currently conducting in Santa Fe, another house debut, and his debut at La Scala Milan is planned for February 2024. Much sought-after for concert work, he has made music with leading orchestras including the Staatskapelle in Dresden and Berlin, the Munich Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony, the Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI and the Swedish Radio Orchestra.
