Thomas Guggeis
Cleveland Orchestra - Also sprach Zarathustra / La Valse
Brings an intensity which demands that his name be thrown into the bag of potential successors to Franz Welser-Möst. His debut was nothing short of thrilling.
Seen and Heard International (March 06, 2025)
London Philharmonic Orchestra Strauss/Wagner
Guggeis, whose Wagnerian credentials are impeccable, was an urgent presence – his eloquent body language and balletic arms conveyed every musical wish.
The Guardian (March 06, 2025)Season 25/26 and Highlights
OPER FRANKFURT
Britten - Peter Grimes
Sep 6/12/14/18
Mozart - Così fan tutte
PREMIERE Sep 21
Sep 28, Oct 2/4/12/17/19/25, Nov 1
Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov
PREMIERE Nov 2
Nov 6/8/14/21/23/26
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC DEBUT
Strauss, R. - Also sprach Zarathustra
Dutilleux - Tout un monde lointain
Ravel - Daphnis Suite No. 2
Sep 25/26/27
FRANKFURT MUSEUMSORCHESTER
Bonis, M - Trois Femmes de Légende for Orchestra
Saint-Saëns - Cello Concerto No.1
Strauss, R. - Symphonia domestica op. 53
Oct 19/20
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ORCHESTRA OF THE SOUND MANAGEMENT & TÖLZER BOYS' CHOIR
Bach, JS - Christmas Oratorio
Dec 23
NETHERLANDS RADIO PHILHARMONIC
Schumann - Violin Concerto in d minor
Brahms - Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn
Beethoven - Symphony No. 8
January 9/11
SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY
Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 1
Dvorak - Symphony No. 7
Jan 17/18
SWR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 1
Dvorak - Symphony No. 7
January 30/31
FRANKFURT MUSEUMSORCHESTER
Barraine, E. - Symphony No. 2
Korngold - Violin Concerto
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5
Feb 8/9
BAVARIAN STATE OPERA
Strauss, R. - Salome
Feb 23/26, March 1/5
OPER FRANKFURT
Wagner - Tristan and Isolde
March 22/28, April 3/6/11
Puccini - Turandot
PREMIERE Apr 12
Apr 16/19/25, May 1/3/9/14/17
FRANKFURT MUSEUMSORCHESTER
Bernstein - Symphony No.2, The Age of Anxiety
Beethoven - Symphony No. 6
March 8/9
FRANKFURT MUSEUMSORCHESTER
Eötvös - Speaking Drums
Mahler - Symphony No. 5
Apr 19/20
ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE LYON
Prokofiev - Symphony No. 1
Tchaikovsky - Variations on a Rococo Theme
Stravinsky - Petrushka
Apr 20
ROYAL SWEDISH ORCHESTRA
Mendelssohn - Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream
Asplund, S. - Hölderin Hymns
Strauss, R. - Don Quixote
May 8
FRANKFURT MUSEUMSORCHESTER
Haydn - The Seasons
May 17/18
ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE FRANCE
Mozart - Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in Eb Major
Zemlinsky - The Mermaid
May 28/29
BERLIN STATE OPERA
Mozart - The Abduction from the Seraglio
June 27, July 1/5/8/11
Biography
Thomas Guggeis has established himself as one of the most impressive conductors of his generation. Equally at home in the opera house and on the concert stage, he has developed a strong international profile with engagements throughout Europe and beyond. Since the 2023/24 season, he has been General Music Director of the Oper Frankfurt and artistic director of the Frankfurt Museum Concerts. In the 2025/26 season, he will conduct new productions of Così fan tutte, Boris Godunov , and Turandot, revivals of Peter Grimes and Tristan und Isolde , and a series of museum concerts with works by Richard Strauss, Shostakovich, Haydn, Beethoven and Mahler. He also returns to the Bavarian State Opera with Salome and to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden with The Abduction from the Seraglio.
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Outside of Frankfurt, Guggeis will make his concert debuts this season with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest (Netherlands), the San Diego Symphony, the SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart and the Orchestre national de Lyon . Further appearances include re-invitations to Orchestre national de France , concerts with the Royal Opera Orchestra Stockholm, the Boulez Ensemble Berlin, as well as Bach's Christmas Oratorio in the Isarphilharmonie Munich.
In recent seasons, he has conducted acclaimed new productions in Frankfurt of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Lulu, Macbeth, Parsifal, Der Rosenkavalier, Le Grand Macabre, Don Carlos, Le nozze di Figaro, Tannhäuser and Elektra.
His other operatic engagements include The Flying Dutchman at the Metropolitan Opera, The Abduction from the Seraglio at La Scala in Milan and numerous productions at the Vienna State Opera ( Salome , La traviata , Ariadne auf Naxos , Falstaff , Die tote Stadt ), at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden ( The Ring of the Nibelung , Katja Kabanová , Don Giovanni , Elektra , Falstaff , Daphne , Salome , Samson et Dalila , La traviata , The Flying Dutchman , The Magic Flute , Lohengrin , Hansel and Gretel , The Merry Wives of Windsor ) and at the Theater an der Wien ( Peter Grimes , Oberon ).
In the concert field, Guggeis has conducted, among others, the Vienna Philharmonic at the Mozart Week in Salzburg, the Bavarian State Orchestra, the State Orchestras in Dresden and Berlin, the Munich Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Cleveland Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra, the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg , the Orchester National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Copenhagen Philharmonic, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, the Orchestra della Toscana, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Essen Philharmonic, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Boulez Ensemble.
After studying in Munich and Milan, Thomas Guggeis was Staatskapellmeister at the Berlin State Opera and First Kapellmeister at the Stuttgart State Opera.
2025/26
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