Thomas Guggeis

Thomas Guggeis takes up the posts of General Music Director of Oper Frankfurt and Artistic Director of the Frankfurt Museum Concerts at the beginning of the 2023/24 season. He made his debut in Frankfurt in May 2021 with Mozart's Requiem, which was followed by Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos.  In his first season in Frankfurt, he will lead new productions of Le nozze di Figaro, Le grand macabre and Tannhäuser alongside revivals of Don Carlo and Elektra. As part of the Museum Concerts, he conducts Mahler's 7th Symphony, Sibelius' 5th Symphony, La Valse by Ravel, Strauss' Alpine Symphony and Messa da Requiem by Verdi, among others.

His debut at Teatro alla Scala in Milan is scheduled for February 2024, where he will conduct Die Entführung aus dem Serail. He will conduct Daphne at the Staatsoper unter den Linden in Berlin and Falstaff at the Vienna State Opera. Concerts take him to the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Boulez Ensemble, the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn and the Copenhagen Philharmonic.

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. In Vienna, he has conducted Oberon and Peter Grimes at the Theater an der Wien.

He started conducting as Staatskapellmeister in Berlin in 2019: his duties including a new production of Daphne and performances of the 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 makes his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in May 2023 before going on to Santa Fe – conducting The Flying Dutchman both times.

Much sought-after for concert work, he has appeared with leading orchestras including the the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Munich Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna Symphony, the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, the Dresden Philharmonic, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, the Orchestra della Toscana, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Essen Philharmonic and the Swedish Radio Orchestra.

Thomas Guggeis studied conducting in Munich and Milan.

2023/24

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