ORCHESTRA SINFONICA NAZIONALE DELLA RAI
Britten – War Requiem
Sep 6 (Milan)/ 7 (Turin)

GERMAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA BERLIN
Britten - Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
Mahler – Adagio from Symphony No. 10
Lim – Sappho / Bioluminescence
Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major
Sep 16

BRATISLAVA MUSIC FESTIVAL / SLOVAK PHILHARMONIC
Ján Levoslav Bella – Concert Overture in E flat major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K467
Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 1 in D major “Titan”
Sep 23

ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE LYON
Ravel – Pavane pour une infante défunte
Saint-Saëns – Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33 with Gautier Capuçon
Debussy – La Mer
Ravel – Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2
Oct 1/2
Schumann – Introduction et Allegro appassionato in G major, Op. 92
Schumann – Introduction et Allegro de concert in D minor, Op. 134
Beethoven – Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 (“Pastoral”)
Oct 8/10
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF THE BAVARIAN BROADCASTING
Bach / Webern – Fuga (2nd Ricercata) a 6 voci from Musical Offering
Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 with Augustin Hadelich
Bruckner – Symphony in F minor, WAB 99 (“Study Symphony”)
Oct 22/23
SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Mendelssohn – Elijah
Oct 30/31
Bach – Orchestral Suite No. 3
Mozart – Symphony No. 39
Nov 6
Macens – New Work (World Premiere)
Bach – Orchestral Suite No. 3
Mozart – Symphony No. 39
Nov 7/8
Wagner – Götterdämmerung
Nov 19/22
LONDON PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Strauss – Moonlight Music from Capriccio
Strauss – The Rose Ribbon
Strauss – Serenade
Strauss – Friendly Vision
Strauss – Dedication
Brahms – A German Requiem
Nov 29
BBC Philharmonic
Schumann – Op. 92
Schumann – Op. 134 with Cédric Tiberghien
Strauss – Alpine Symphony
Dec 4
BERLIN STATE OPERA
Verdi – Nabucco
Dec 14/17/20/22
OPÉRA NATIONAL DE PARIS
Janáček – Katia Kabanova
PREMIERE Jan 27
Jan 27/30, Feb 2/4/7/10
SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Mahler – Symphony No. 7
Feb 18/19/20
Dvořák – Cello Concerto
Vaughan Williams – A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2)
Feb 24/25/26/27
Beethoven – Two Romances for Violin and Orchestra
Schumann – Symphony No. 3
March 4/5/6
VIENNA STATE OPERA
Wagner – Parsifal
March 25/29, Apr 1/3
OSLO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Strauss – Death and Transfiguration
Apr 7
Strauss – Death and Transfiguration
Zemlinsky – Lyric Symphony with Maria Bengtsson and Wolfgang Koch
Apr 8
FILARMONICA DELLA SCALA
Beethoven – Leonore Overture No. 3
Bach / Webern – Ricercata, fuga a 6 voci from Musikalisches Opfer, BWV 1079
Webern – Passacaglia
Schumann – Symphony No. 3 (“Rhenish”)
Apr 19

VIENNA STATE OPERA
Berg – Lulu
May 17/20/23/26
ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE FRANCE
Adams – Tromba lontana
Saariaho – Ciel d'hiver
Sibelius – Violin Concerto
Beethoven – Symphony No. 8
June 3
SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Beethoven – Symphony Nos. 1, 2, 3
June 16
Beethoven – Symphony Nos. 1, 2, 3
June 17
Beethoven – Symphony Nos. 4 and 5
June 18
Beethoven – Symphony Nos. 4 and 5
June 19
Beethoven – Symphony Nos. 6 and 7
June 22
Beethoven – Symphony Nos. 6 and 7
June 23
Beethoven – Symphony Nos. 8 and 9
June 25
Beethoven – Symphony Nos. 8 and 9
June 26
FOREST STAGE
Verdi – Nabucco
Aug 28

Biography

The Australian conductor Simone Young is widely regarded as one of the leading conductors of our time. Since 2022, she has served as Chief Conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, where she is leading, among other projects, a concert performance cycle of Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen.

In the 2026/27 season, she returns to the Opéra national de Paris to conduct Katja Kabanova. At the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, she conducts Nabucco, while at the Vienna State Opera she leads performances of Lulu and Parsifal. In the summer of 2027, she returns to the Bayreuth Festival to conduct Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Simone Young also continues to make a major impact on the international concert stage and appears with the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Orchestre National de Lyon, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Filarmonica della Scala, and the Orchestre National de France.
From 2005 to 2015, Simone Young served as Artistic Director of the Hamburg State Opera and General Music Director of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra. In this dual role, she oversaw an exceptionally broad repertoire, ranging from Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Wagner and Strauss to Hindemith, Britten and Henze, while also presenting numerous world and national 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 established herself internationally as one of the foremost interpreters of the works of Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. She has conducted several complete cycles of Wagner's em>Ring des Nibelungen 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 at Teatro alla Scala during the 2025/26 season.
Guest engagements have taken her to many of the world's leading opera houses, including the Vienna State Opera, 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 Teatro alla Scala.
On the concert platform, Simone Young has long been one of the world's most sought-after conductors. She regularly appears with leading orchestras including the Vienna Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Staatskapelle Berlin, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.), Munich Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Filarmonica della Scala, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, as well as the leading orchestras of Australia.
For her outstanding artistic achievements, Simone Young has received numerous international honours. She holds honorary doctorates from the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne, is a Member of the Order of Australia (AM), a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres of France, and a recipient of both the Goethe Medal and the Brahms Prize of Schleswig-Holstein. Simone Young is Honorary Member of the Vienna and Hamburg State Opera.
Her exceptional artistic achievements are further documented in an extensive discography of acclaimed CD and DVD recordings.
2026/27
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