Sebastian Weigle

Since the 2019 season, Sebastian Weigle has been the principal conductor of the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo. In the 2024/25 season, he will conduct a concert version of "Wozzeck" and lead a European tour featuring works by Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, and Beethoven. Additional concerts will take him to the Copenhagen Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Weimar, and the Graz Philharmonic. In the opera world, he will return to the Bavarian State Opera to conduct a new production of Strauss' "Die Liebe der Danae" as well as revivals of "Pique Dame" and "Lohengrin."

His engagements have taken him to numerous renowned opera houses, including those in Berlin, Munich, Dresden, Hamburg, Zurich, the Vienna State Opera, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and Tokyo. In concerts, he has conducted prominent orchestras such as the radio orchestras of Berlin, Munich and Stuttgart, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony, major Scandinavian orchestras, and internationally in Tokyo, Chicago, and Melbourne.

From 2008 to 2023, Sebastian Weigle was the General Music Director of the Frankfurt Opera. Additionally, from 2004 to 2009, he served as chief conductor at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. In the summer of 2007, he made his debut at the Bayreuth Festival with a new production of "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg."

Sebastian Weigle has numerous CD recordings of works by Beethoven, Mozart, Rott, and others to his name. Under his musical direction, the Frankfurt production of the "Ring des Nibelungen" (directed by Vera Nemirova) was released on DVD by OehmsClassics in 2012.

Born in Berlin, Sebastian Weigle studied horn, piano, and conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler. In 1982, he was appointed principal hornist of the Staatskapelle Berlin. In 1987, he founded the Berlin Chamber Choir and was the artistic director of Neues Berliner Kammerorchester. In 1993, he became the chief conductor of the Junge Philharmonie Brandenburg, and from 1997 to 2002, he served as Staatskapellmeister at the Berlin State Opera.

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