Thomas Guggeis

Thomas Guggeis has been the General Music Director of the Oper Frankfurt and Artistic Director of the Frankfurter Museum Concerts since the 2023/24 season. He made his debut in Frankfurt in May 2021 with Mozart's Requiem, followed by Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos. In this season, he will conduct new productions of Lulu, Macbeth, and Parsifal, as well as revivals of Lady Macbeth of Mzensk and Der Rosenkavalier. As part of the Museumskonzerte, he will conduct Mahler’s 3rd Symphony, Tchaikovsky’s 6th Symphony, Bruckner’s 5th Symphony, and Mendelssohn’s 2nd Symphony, among others.

Outside of Frankfurt, this season, he will perform with prestigious orchestras such as the Bavarian State Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Bergen Philharmonic, the Hamburg Philharmonic, the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra, and more. For the second time since 2023, Thomas Guggeis will conduct the Vienna Philharmonic at the Mozartwochen in Salzburg and will also return to the Staatskapelle Berlin and the Bavarian State Orchestra.

In recent seasons, Thomas Guggeis has guest-conducted at the Teatro alla Scala with Die Entführung aus dem Serail, at the Metropolitan Opera with Der fliegende Holländer, at the Vienna State Opera with Die tote Stadt, Salome, La Traviata, Ariadne auf Naxos, and Falstaff. At the Berlin State Opera, he conducted the premieres of Salome and Daphne, as well as 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, and Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor. At the Theater an der Wien, he conducted the productions of Oberon and Peter Grimes.

As a sought-after concert conductor, Thomas Guggeis has worked with leading orchestras such as the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Munich Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Copenhagen Philharmonic, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Boulez Ensemble, among others.

After his studies in Munich and Milan, Thomas Guggeis was the Staatskapellmeister at the Berlin State Opera and the First Kapellmeister at the Stuttgart State Opera.

2024/25

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