VIENNA STATE OPERA
Kurtág – Fin de Partie
Sep 30, Oct 3/6/10

SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Wagner - Siegfried - concert version
Nov 13/16

NDR ELBPHILHARMONIE ORCHESTRA
Shostakovich – Cello Concerto No. 2
Schmidt – Symphony No. 2
Dec 11/12/14

BERLIN STATE OPERA
Wagner – Lohengrin
Jan 18/25, Feb 1/7

ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE LYON
Schoenberg – Transfigured Night
Zemlinsky – Lyric Symphony
Jan 29/30

WDR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA COLOGNE
Ravel – Pavane for a Dead Princess
Ravel – Piano Concerto in G Major
Korngold – Symphony in F-sharp
Feb 6

TEATRO ALLA SCALA
Wagner – Twilight of the Gods
Feb 12/17

TEATRO ALLA SCALA
Wagner – The Ring of the Nibelung
Das Rheingold – March 10
The Valkyrie – March 11
Siegfried – March 13
Twilight of the Gods – March 15

ORCHESTRA PHILHARMONIQUE DE RADIO FRANCE
Prokofiev – Piano Concerto No. 2
Dvořák – Symphony No. 9 (“From the New World”)
March 25/27/28

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Wagner – Overture to The
Mastersingers of Nuremberg
Sibelius – Violin Concerto
Wagner – Prelude to Act III of The Mastersingers of Nuremberg
Strauss, R. – Death and Transfiguration
Apr 2/4

LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC
Messiaen – Turangalîla Symphony
Apr 10/11/12

SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY
Macens – The Space Between the Stars
Saint-Saëns – Cello Concerto No. 1
Wagner – Selections from The Ring of the Nibelung
(edited by Simone Young)
Apr 17/18/19

ORCHESTRA SYMPHONIQUE OF MONTRÉAL
Chopin – Piano Concerto No. 1
Brahms – Piano Quartet No. 1 (arranged by Schoenberg)
Apr 30/ May 2

BERLIN BROADCASTING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Dvořák – Violin Concerto
Korngold – Symphony in F-sharp
May 30

Biography

Australian conductor Simone Young is one of the most important conductors of our time. Since 2022, she has been chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, where she conducts, among other things, a concert performance of the Ring Cycle .

In the 2026/27 season, it returns to the Opéra national de Paris She returns and conducts Katja Kabanova . At the Berlin State Opera, she will conduct Nabucco , and at the Vienna State Opera, Lulu and Parsifal . In the summer of 2027, she returns to Bayreuth to conduct Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Simone Young also makes an impressive mark in the symphonic field, appearing as a guest conductor with orchestras such as the RAI Orchestra Torino and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Orchestre National de Lyon , Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic as well as the Filarmonica della Scala and the Orchestre National France.
From 2005 to 2015, Simone Young was Artistic Director of the Hamburg State Opera and General Music Director of the Hamburg Philharmonic. In this dual role, she was responsible for a wide-ranging repertoire, encompassing Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, Strauss, Hindemith, Britten, and Henze, and including numerous world and German premieres. Prior to this, she was Chief Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra from 1998 to 2002 and Artistic Director of Opera Australia in Sydney and Melbourne from 2001 to 2003.
Early in her career, Simone Young made an international name for herself as an outstanding Wagner and Strauss interpreter. She conducted several complete Ring cycles at the Vienna State Opera, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, and the Bayreuth Festival, as well as in a new production at the Hamburg State Opera and most recently in 2025/26 at La Scala.
Guest engagements took her to the most prestigious opera houses in the world, including the Vienna State Opera, which Opéra national de Paris , the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Bavarian State Opera, the Semperoper Dresden , the Zurich Opera House and the Teatro alla Scala.
Simone Young has been one of the most sought-after conductors on international concert stages for many years. She regularly works with leading orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, and the Orchestre de Paris. Orchestre National de France , the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Filarmonica della Scala, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic and numerous leading orchestras of Australia.
Simone Young has received numerous honors for her artistic achievements. She holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Sydney and Melbourne, is a Member of the Order of Australia, a French Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, a Goethe Medal, and the Brahms Prize of Schleswig-Holstein. Simone Young is an honorary member of the Vienna and Hamburg State Operas.
Numerous CD and DVD recordings document her extraordinary artistic work.
2026/27
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