Thomas Guggeis
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Born | 1993 (age 30–31) Dachau, Bavaria, Germany |
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Occupation | Conductor |
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Thomas Guggeis (born 1993[1]) is a German conductor and pianist. He is Kapellmeister at the Staatsoper Berlin and the designated Generalmusikdirektor (GMD) of the Oper Frankfurt.
Life and career
Born in Dachau, Bavaria,[2] Guggeis studied conducting at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan.[3][4][5][6] He also received a bachelor's degree in quantum mechanics.[2] He began his professional career as repetiteur at the Staatsoper Berlin, where he was an assistant of Daniel Barenboim.[7] He was internationally recognized there when he stepped in at short notice to conduct Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss.[1]
Guggeis received the Förderpreis of the Ritter-Stiftung in Straubing in 2014,[8] and was nominated for the Deutscher Dirigentenpreis in 2017.[9] He was Kapellmeister at the Staatsoper Stuttgart from the 2018/19 season, where he conducted operas such as Puccini's La Bohème and Madama Butterfly, Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, Henze's Der Prinz von Homburg and Weber's Der Freischütz.[1] He conducted for the first time at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna in 2019, a new production of Weber's Oberon.[1][10]
Guggeis returned to the Staatskapelle Berlin in 2020,[11][12] and was awarded the title Staatskapellmeister, as the youngest conductor to date.[1] He led there Ariadne auf Naxos and Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, followed after a break due to the COVID-19 pandemic by Verdi's Falstaff.[1]
Guggeis conducted Ariadne auf Naxos at the Oper Frankfurt in his first opera at the house in June 2021.[1] In October 2021, he was designated to become the next Generalmusikdirektor (GMD) in Frankfurt, succeeding Sebastian Weigle and to assume the position with the 2023/24 season, first for a five-year period.[7][5]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Thomas Guggeis / Dirigent". Oper Frankfurt (in German). 2021. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ a b Penzkofer, Karl. "Guggeis, Thomas". RePaLi (in German). Retrieved 7 November 2021.
- ^ "klassik.com : Thomas Guggeis macht(e) Karriere bei Oper Frankfurt". professionals.klassik.com. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
- ^ "Persone". laVerdi (in Italian). Retrieved 7 November 2021.
- ^ a b Stosiek, Tobias (26 October 2021). "Thomas Guggeis wird neuer Generalmusikdirektor in Frankfurt. Oper statt Quantenphysik". BR (in German). Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ "Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Thomas Guggeis!". Staatsoper Stuttgart (in German). Retrieved 7 November 2021.
- ^ a b Brachmann, Jan (26 October 2021). "Neuer GMD in Frankfurt: Die junge Exzellenz". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 7 November 2021.
- ^ "Straubinger Kulturförderpreis 2014". Ritter-Stiftung (in German). Retrieved 7 November 2021.
- ^ "Deutscher Dirigentenpreis 2017 – die Kandidaten stehen fest". Deutscher Musikrat (in German). 14 June 2017. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
- ^ "Musikalische Leitung – Oberon". Theater an der Wien (in German). Retrieved 7 November 2021.
- ^ "Thomas Guggeis wird Kapellmeister an Staatsoper Stuttgart". berlin.de (in German). 3 March 2018. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
- ^ "Pressemitteilungen". Staatsoper Berlin (in German). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
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