Thomas Guggeis
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra - Strauss / Dutilleux
Silence amidst enchanting sound: Thomas Guggeis makes a brilliant debut with the Berlin Philharmonic. … From chamber music-like delicacy, he very gently allows the full orchestra to blossom into a golden, blissful string sound. The brass section responds wonderfully softly, the pulse rises and falls, the tension is maintained, even during the long pianissimo passage for the cellos and double basses.
Tagesspiegel (26.09.2025)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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TONHALLE-ORCHESTER ZÜRICH
Ravel - Valse Nobles et Sentimentales
Liszt - Piano Concerto No. 2
Ravel - Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2
Dec 10/11/12ORCHESTRA 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 2026/27 season, he will conduct at the Oper Frankfurt Le Roi Arthus , Hänsel und Gretel , Un ballo in maschera , Die Walküre , Das Rheingold and Die griechische Passion .
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Furthermore, Guggeis will make his concert debuts with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra in the 2026/27 season. Additional concert appearances include return engagements with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Orchestre national de France as well as to the Filarmonica della Scala. In the opera field, he returns to the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino for Wozzeck and to La Scala in Milan for Don Giovanni , before making his debut at the Bayreuth Festival with Tannhäuser in the summer of 2027.
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 , Elektra , Così fan tutte , Boris Godunov , and Turandot , as well as revivals of Peter Grimes and Tristan und Isolde . His more recent work there also includes a series of museum concerts featuring works by Richard Strauss, Shostakovich, Haydn, and others. Beethoven and Mahler.
His other opera engagements include The Flying Dutchman at the Metropolitan Opera, The Abduction from the Seraglio at La Scala in Milan, Salome at the Bavarian State Opera, and numerous productions at the Vienna State Opera ( Salome , La traviata , Ariadne auf Naxos , Falstaff , Die tote Stadt ), at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden ( Der Ring des Nibelungen , Káťa Kabanová , Don Giovanni , Elektra , Falstaff , Daphne , Salome , Samson et Dalila , La traviata , The Flying Dutchman , The Magic Flute , Lohengrin , Ariadne auf Naxos , Hänsel und Gretel , The Merry Wives of Windsor , The Abduction from the Seraglio ), and at the Theater an der Wien ( Peter Grimes , Oberon ).
In the concert arena, Guggeis conducted, among others, the Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Mozart Week, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Bavarian State Orchestra, the Staatskapelle 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 Orchestre national de France , the Orchester National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Orchestre national de Lyon , the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the San Diego Symphony, the SWR Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra, the Beethoven The Bonn Orchestra, 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 Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Boulez Ensemble Berlin. His more recent concert projects also include Bach's Christmas Oratorio at the Isarphilharmonie in Munich.
Earlier in his career, Guggeis was Staatskapellmeister at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and First Kapellmeister at the Staatsoper Stuttgart. He studied conducting in Munich and Milan.
2026/27
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