Thomas Guggeis

Thomas Guggeis has served as General Music Director of Oper Frankfurt and Artistic Director of the Frankfurt Museum Concerts since the 2023/24 season. He made his debut in Frankfurt in May 2021 with Mozart's Requiem, which was followed by Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos. This season in Frankfurt he will lead new productions of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Lulu, Macbeth, and Parsifal alongside a revival of Der Rosenkavalier. As a part of the Museum Concerts in the 2024/25 season he conducts Mahler’s 3rd Symphony, Tchaikovsky’s 6th Symphony, Bruckner’s 5th Symphony and Mendelssohn's 2nd Symphony, among others.

Outside of Frankfurt he can be seen this season making symphonic debuts with 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, Cologne’s Gürzenich Orchestra and the Nuremberg State Philharmonic. He will make his concert debut with the Vienna Philharmonic this season at the Mozartwoche in Salzburg, and return to the Staatskapelle Berlin and the Bavarian State Orchestra.

Recent season have seen Thomas Guggeis appear at, among others, the Teatro alla Scala with Die Entführung aus dem Serail; the Metropolitan Opera with Der fliegende Holländer; the Vienna State Opera with Die tote Stadt, Salome, La traviata, Ariadne auf Naxos and Falstaff; the Berlin State Opera with 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 and The Merry Wives of Windsor; and at the Theater an der Wien with Oberon and Peter Grimes.

Much sought-after for concert work, Guggeis has appeared with leading orchestras including the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Munich Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony, 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 Dresden Philharmonic, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, the Orchestra della Toscana, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Essen Philharmonic, the Swedish Radio Orchestra and the Boulez Ensemble, among others.

Earlier in his career Guggeis served Staatskapellmeister at the Berlin State Opera and as First Kapellmeister at the Stuttgart State Opera, before which he studied conducting in Munich and Milan.

2024/25

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