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 emerged as one of the most compelling conductors of his generation. Equally at home in the opera house and the concert hall, he has developed a strong international profile with engagements across Europe and beyond. Guggeis has served as Generalmusikdirektor of Oper Frankfurt and Artistic Director of the Frankfurter Museumsorchester since the 2023/24 season. In Frankfurt’s 2025/26 season, he conducts new productions of Così fan tutte, Boris Godunov, and Turandot, as well as revivals of Peter Grimes and Tristan und Isolde, and a series of Museumskonzerte featuring works by Richard Strauss, Shostakovich, Haydn, Beethoven, and Mahler. He also returns to the Bayerische Staatsoper for Salome and to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden for Die Entführung aus dem Serail.
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Beyond Frankfurt, Guggeis makes his concert debuts this season with the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest (Netherlands), the San Diego Symphony, the SWR Symphonieorchester Stuttgart, and the Orchestre national de Lyon. Further appearances include returns to the Orchestre national de France, concerts with the Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra, the Boulez Ensemble Berlin, and Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium at the Isarphilharmonie München.
Over the past seasons in Frankfurt, Guggeis has conducted critically acclaimed new productions of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Lulu, Macbeth, Parsifal, Der Rosenkavalier, Le Grand Macabre, Don Carlos, Le nozze di Figaro, Tannhäuser, and Elektra.
His additional opera credits include Der fliegende Holländer at the Metropolitan Opera, Die Entführung aus dem Serail at Teatro alla Scala, and numerous productions at the Wiener Staatsoper (Salome, La traviata, Ariadne auf Naxos, Falstaff, Die tote Stadt), the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Der Ring des Nibelungen, Katja Kabanová, Don Giovanni, Elektra, Falstaff, (Daphne, Salome, Samson et Dalila, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Katja Kabanová, La traviata, Der fliegende Holländer, Die Zauberflöte, Lohengrin, Ariadne auf Naxos, Hänsel und Gretel, Don Giovanni, Elektra, Falstaff, Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor), and the Theater an der Wien (Peter Grimes, Oberon).
In concert, he has led the Wiener Philharmoniker at the Mozartwoche in Salzburg, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Staatskapelle Dresden, Staatskapelle Berlin, Münchner Philharmoniker, Wiener Symphoniker, Orchestre de Paris, Cleveland Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Dresdner Philharmonie, Copenhagen Philharmonic, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Orchestra della Toscana, Berner Symphonieorchester, Essener Philharmoniker, and Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, among others.
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.
2025/26
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