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 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 will make his concert debuts this season with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich , the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (Netherlands), the San Diego Symphony, the SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart and the Orchestre national de Lyon Further appearances include return invitations to Orchestre national de France , the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Boulez Ensemble Berlin, concerts with the Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra, and Bach's Christmas Oratorio in the Isarphilharmonie Munich.
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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