Thomas Guggeis
Conductor / General Music Director
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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 are followed this season by Così fan tutte, Boris Godunov and Turandot and revivals of Peter Grimes and Tristan und Isolde.
He caused an international stir in 2018, stepping 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. Operas conducted by him at the Staatsoper in Berlin since 2020 included a new 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 is a regular guest at the Vienna State Opera, where he conducted Die tote Stadt, Salome, La traviata, Ariadne auf Naxos and Falstaff. He made his debuts at the Metropolitan Opera in May 2023 before going on to Santa Fe – conducting The Flying Dutchman both times, and La Scala Milan in 2024, with Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Guest engagements during the 2025/26 season take him to the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin.
Much sought-after for concert work, he has appeared with leading orchestras including the Staatskapelle in Dresden and Berlin, the Bayerische Staaatorchester and Philharmonic in Munich, the Hamburg Staatsorchester and Vienna philharmonics, the Orchestre de Paris, Filarmonica della Scala, the Cleveland Orchestra, London Philharmonic and Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia Roma. A highlight during the 2025/26 season - alongside invitations to conduct the San Diego Symphony, the SWR Symphonieorchester, Orchestre national de Lyon, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and Orchestre National de France – is his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic. He enjoys working closely with the Boulez Ensemble, with whom he regurlarly explores masterpieces of contemporary music.