Biography
German conductor Gabriel Feltz made his National Theatre Opera debut in November 2022, when he prepared a new production of Der Rosenkavalier at the State Opera. He has been General Music Director of the Dortmund Opera and Chief Conductor of the Dortmund Philharmonic since the 2013/14 season and Chief Conductor of the Belgrade Philharmonic since the 2017/18 season (both contracts extended until the 2024/25 season). The career of Gabriel Feltz as an opera conductor started with a highly successful debut at the Komische Oper Berlin with Die Soldaten by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Der fliegende Holländer at the Bavarian State Opera, Arabella at the Oper Frankfurt and Rihm’s Hamletmaschine in Zurich. Other highlights include opera productions in Zurich (Amerika by Roman Haubenstock-Ramati), Geneva (Voyage vers l’Espoir by Christian Jost), Komische Oper Berlin (Luigi Nono’s Intolleranza), in Dortmund (Der Ring des Nibelungen) and Cologne Opera (Korngold’s Die tote Stadt and Braunfels’ Die Vögel). Gabriel Feltz has conducted leading orchestras such as the Staatskapelle Dresden, BRSO Munich, DSO Berlin, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Frankfurt Opern- und Museumsorchester, the Radio Symphony Orchestras of Berlin (RSB), Cologne (WDR), Leipzig (MDR), Hamburg & Hannover (NDR) and Saarbrücken (SR), the RSO Vienna, the National Orchestra of Taiwan, KBS Seoul and the China National Symphony, among many others.
Photo: Marcel Schaar