Simone Young
Bayreuth Festival - Götterdämmerung
Simone Young delivers an interpretation to the enthusiastic audience that never ceases to be exciting. Together with the festival orchestra's outstanding performance, the music resonates in all its facets, captivating and touching.
Klassik begeistert (August 02, 2025)Staatskapelle Berlin - Berg-Boulez-Mahler
With an exciting and excellently played concert program, the Berlin Staatskapelle and Anne-Sophie Mutter create a festive Easter atmosphere on Holy Saturday. The conductor Simone Young, especially with Pierre Boulez, let her enthusiasm for this music shine through the hall!
Klassik begeistert (April 20, 2025)Season 25/26 and Highlights
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
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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
The Australian conductor Simone Young is one of the most important conductors of our time. Since 2022, she has been the chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, where she has conducted, among other things, a concertante Ring des Nibelungen. In 2024, she made her debut at the Bayreuth Festival with this work and returned in the summer of 2025 for two more cycles.
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Following the acclaimed new production of György Kurtág's Fin de partie at the Vienna State Opera, she will conduct the revival in autumn 2025. She will then conduct Wagner's Lohengrin at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. She will then complete David McVicar's new production of The Ring of the Nibelung, including Götterdämmerung and a complete cycle, at La Scala in Milan.
She also sets impressive accents in the symphonic field and conducts the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande , the WDR Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, and, as part of a US tour, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.
From 2005 to 2015, she was the director of the Hamburg State Opera and general music director of the Hamburg Philharmonic, where she was responsible for a wide-ranging repertoire of works from Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Wagner and Strauss to Hindemith, Britten and Henze, as well as numerous world premieres and first performances. Earlier positions led her as chief conductor from 1998 to 2002 to the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and from 2001 to 2003 as artistic director to Opera Australia in Sydney and Melbourne.
At the very beginning of her career, Simone Young made a name for herself internationally as a Wagner and Strauss conductor. She conducted several complete Ring des Nibelungen cycles at the Vienna State Opera, the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden, and a new production at the Hamburg State Opera. Engagements have taken her to leading houses worldwide, such as the Vienna State Opera (debut 1993), the Opéra National de Paris , the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Berlin State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera, the Semperoper Dresden , the Zurich Opera and for the first time in 2023 to La Scala with a new production by Peter Grimes (directed by Robert Carsen).
In addition to her extensive operatic activities, she is also in great demand on the concert stage. Engagements have taken her to orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the London Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Washington Symphony Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Orchestre de Paris, the Filarmonica della Scala, the Orchestre National de France , the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, the Oslo Philharmonic and numerous Australian orchestras.
Simone Young has received numerous awards for her artistic work: She is an honorary doctor of the Universities of Sydney and Melbourne, a recipient of the Australian Order of Merit »Member of the Order of Australia«, the French Order »Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres«, the Goethe Medal and the Brahms Prize Schleswig-Holstein. In April 2022, she was appointed an honorary member of the Vienna State Opera.
Numerous CD and DVD recordings document her impressive artistic work.
2025/26
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