Ingo Metzmacher

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2018 in front of the Cumberlandsche Galerie at the talk of the city of the Friends of Hanover

Ingo Metzmacher (born November 10, 1957 in Hanover ) is a German conductor .

life and work

Ingo Metzmacher is the son of the cellist Prof. Rudolf Metzmacher and the biologist Dr. Lore Schoen. He studied piano, music theory and conducting in his hometown of Hanover as well as in Cologne and Salzburg. In 1980 he found his first permanent engagement with Ensemble Modern , where he initially worked as a pianist and from 1985 as a conductor. From 1985 to 1987 he was répétiteur with Michael Gielen at the Frankfurt Opera , where he made his debut as an opera conductor in 1987 with Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro . His international career began in 1988 during the era of Gerard Mortier at the Brussels Opera House La Monnaie , when he took over the premiere of a new production of Franz Schreker's Der ferne Klang at short notice .

From 1997 to 2005 Ingo Metzmacher was general music director of the Hamburg State Opera , where he directed numerous internationally acclaimed performances, including many in collaboration with the director Peter Konwitschny . Lohengrin , Wozzeck , Der Freischütz , Don Carlos and Moses and Aron are among his greatest successes . The magazine Opernwelt named the Hamburg house Opera House of the Year in 2005 .

From 2005 to 2008 he was chief conductor at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam. The performances of Die Bassariden , directed by Peter Stein , Die tote Stadt and Die Gezeichen with the Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Da Ponte cycle with the directors Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito are among the particular merits of his work there .

In 2007 he became chief conductor and artistic director of the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin , which he led in these positions until 2010. With the orchestra he undertook various tours in Europe and Southeast Asia and founded the concert series Casual Concerts .

Since the beginning of his career, Ingo Metzmacher has been committed to the music of the 20th and 21st centuries. His extensive discography includes the publications of the world premiere of Hans Werner Henze's 9th Symphony with the Berlin Philharmonic , the Hamburg New Year's Eve concerts from 1999 to 2004 under the title Who is Afraid of 20th Century Music , and the complete recording of Karl Amadeus Hartmann's symphonies with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra , Olivier Messiaen's Eclairs sur l'Au-delà ... with the Vienna Philharmonic as well as live recordings of Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mzensk from the Vienna State Opera and Luigi Nono's Prometeo at the Salzburg Festival .

He is a regular guest at the world's leading opera houses, including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden ( The Rake's Progress , Die tote Stadt , Die Nase ), the Zurich Opera House ( Königskinder , Tristan und Isolde , Der ferne Klang , Tannhäuser , Aus einer Totenhaus , The nose , Palestrina ), the Milan Scala ( The soldiers , Wozzeck ), Teatro Real in Madrid ( Il prigioniero , Suor Angelica ), the Vienna State Opera ( Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk , Parsifal , the rise and fall of the city of Mahagonny , Jenufa ) , the Berlin State Opera ( The Rake's Progress , Al gran sole carico d'amore , Ariadne auf Naxos ) and the Paris Opera ( Capriccio ).

At the Salzburg Festival , Ingo Metzmacher conducted the world premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's opera Dionysos (2010) as well as music theater works by Luigi Nono ( Al gran sole carico d'amore , 2009), Bernd Alois Zimmermann ( The Soldiers , 2012), Harrison Birtwistle ( Gawain , 2013), Franz Schubert ( Fierrabras , 2014), Wolfgang Rihm ( Die Eroberung von Mexico , 2015) and George Enescu ( Oedipe , 2019). In 2013 he conducted Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen for the first time at the Geneva Opera .

Ingo Metzmacher also gives regular concerts with leading orchestras. He has conducted the Berlin Philharmonic and the Vienna Philharmonic , the Concertgebouw Orchestra , the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , the Czech Philharmonic , the Russian National Orchestra , the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic , the BBC Symphony Orchestra , the Orchester de Paris , the Vienna Symphony , the Bamberg Symphony , the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg and the New Philharmonic Orchestra Japan .

A plea for pioneering modern composers such as Charles Ives , Olivier Messiaen , Arnold Schönberg , Edgard Varèse , Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage is his book Not Afraid of New Tones (Rowohlt, 2005). An opera book called Curtain Up! Discover and Experience Opera was also published by Rowohlt in October 2009.

Since 2016 he has been director of the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen in Hanover.

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Awards and honors

  • 1993: Grammy Awards , nomination for best orchestral recording for Ives: A Portrait of Charles Ives (together with Ensemble Modern)
  • 1996: German Record Critics' Prize for Luigi Nono's Prometeo (together with Ingrid Ade-Jesemann, Monika Bair-Ivenz, Peter Hall, Solistenchor Freiburg and Ensemble Modern)
  • 1996: ECHO Klassik in the category recording of the year with music of the 20th century (together with Sarah Leonard, Cornelia Kallisch, Thomas Randle, Udo Samel, male choir of the Bamberg Symphony and Bamberg Symphony)
  • 1998: German Record Critics' Prize for Karl Amadeus Hartmann's symphonies (together with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra)
  • 1998: ECHO Klassik in the Conductor of the Year category
  • 1998: Opera World , Conductor of the Year
  • 1999: Lower Saxony Prize for Culture
  • 2000: ECHO Klassik in the symphonic recording of the year category for The Millennium Concert (together with the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra)
  • 2001: Grammy Awards , nomination for best opera recording for Alban Bergs Wozzeck (together with Bo Skovhus, Angela Denoke, Frode Olsen, Chris Merritt, Jan Blinkhof, Jürgen Sacher, choir of the Hamburg State Opera and Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg)
  • 2009: Praetorius Music Prize of the State of Lower Saxony
  • 2010: Opera World , Conductor of the Year
  • 2010: Grammy Awards , nomination for Best Opera Recording for Messiaens Saint François d'Assise (together with Camilla Tilling , Rod Gilfry, Hubert Delamboye, Henk Neven, Tom Randle, Donald Kaasch, Armand Arapian, Choir of the Netherlands Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra The Hague)
  • 2013: International Opera Awards , nomination for best conductor
  • 2017: International Opera Awards, nomination for best conductor

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Double triumph: Theater and Opera House of the Year are in Hamburg Handelsblatt , September 22, 2005
  2. ↑ Casual Concert June 23, 2008 ( Memento from April 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), website of the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin.
personal data
SURNAME Metzmacher, Ingo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover