Since the beginning of his career, Ingo Metzmacher has strived both to popularize contemporary music and to offer a fresh perspective on classical music. Born in Hanover, he served as General Music Director at the Staatsoper Hamburg from 1997 to 2005. He was then appointed Principal Conductor of the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam. From 2007 to 2010, he was Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and from 2016 to 2025, he served as Artistic Director of the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen.He is frequently invited by orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, the Czech Philharmonic, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Vienna Symphony, and Ensemble Modern, as well as by opera houses and festivals including the Vienna State Opera, the Paris National Opera, La Scala in Milan, the Salzburg Festival, and the Aix-en-Provence Festival. He is the author of Keine Angst vor neuen Tönen (“Don’t Be Afraid of New Sounds”) and Vorhang auf! Oper entdecken und erleben (“Raise the Curtain! Discovering and Experiencing Opera”).At the Paris National Opera: Kátia Kabanová, 1996; Capriccio, 2016; Bluebeard’s Castle / La Voix humaine, 2018; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, 2019; Œdipus, 2021.

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