Ingo Metzmacher
Ingo Metzmacher was General Music Director of the Staatsoper Hamburg (1997–2005), Chief Conductor at the Dutch National Opera (2005–07) and Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (2007–10). From 2016 to 2025, he served as Artistic Director of the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen in Hanover.
Across the 2025/26 season, Ingo leads Mahler in Palmero (‘Resurrection’) and Cologne (Symphony No. 7). He explores 20th-century Americana with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and partners Messiaen’s Trois Petites Liturgies de la Présence Divine with Shostakovich’s profound Symphony No. 13 ‘Babi Yar’ in Warsaw. Metzmacher returns to Opéra national de Paris for a new production of Glass’s Satyagraha with director-choreographers Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber. To the Salzburger Festspiele (Der Prinz von Hamburg), San Carlo (Fünf Neapolitanische Lieder), and Frankfurt (Voices), he brings the music of Hans Werner Henze; and leads concerts across Vienna with Wiener Symphoniker, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester, and Klangforum Wien.
Highlights of recent seasons include new productions of Rihm’s Die Eroberung von Mexico, Enescu’s Œdipe, Nono’s Intolleranza 1960 and Verdi’s Falstaff at the Salzburger Festspiele, Strauss‘ Salome at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Enescus Œdipe and Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in Paris, Braunfels Die Vögel at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Magnard's Guercœur at the Opéra national du Rhin. and, most recently, the world premiere of Filidei’s Il nome della rosa at Teatro alla Scala. Ingo has conducted The Cleveland Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Oslo Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic and Ensemble Modern, among others.
At the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, Ingo has brought together the NDR Radiophilharmonie and numerous regional choirs to perform Schönberg's Gurre-Lieder, Berlioz' Requiem, Mahler's Symphony No.8 and Bernstein's Mass, and with the Ensemble Modern the world premiere of Mark Andre's rwh 1-4.
