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 the 2023/24 season, during which he conducted several museums concerts, revivals of Don Carlo and Elektra and new productions of Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre, Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and Tannhäuser. This season you can hear him conducting new productions of Berg's Lulu, Verdi's Macbeth and Wagner's Parsifal and revivals of Shostakovitch's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Strauss' Rosenkavalier. He made his debut in Frankfurt in May 2021 with Mozart's Requiem, which was followed by Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos.
He 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. He started conducting as Staatskapellmeister in Berlin in 2019: his duties including a new production of Daphne and performances of 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 is a regular guest at the Vienna State Opera, where he recently conducted Die tote Stadt, Salome, La traviata, and Ariadne auf Naxos. 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 earlier this year, with Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Much sought-after for concert work, he has appeared 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 and the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI. This season he returns to the Vienna Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle in Berlin and the Bavarian State Orchestra and makes his debuts with the Bergen Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, Hamburg's State Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, the Orchestra dell‘Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Staatsphilharmonie in Nürnberg and Gürzenich-Orchester in Cologne. He enjoys special ties to the Boulez Ensemble, with whom he regularly works on contemporary masterpieces in Berlin.