ABOUT

The General Music Director at Landestheater Coburg, Daniel Carter has been a Conductor at the Deutsche Oper Berlin since August 2019. In 23/24 Daniel Carter will made his debut at the Vienna State Opera (Die Zauberflöte) and returned to the Deutsche Oper Berlin with a new production of John Adams’ Nixon in China. Furthermore he was invited to Malmö Opera for a new production of Turandot, which led to an immediate re-invitation for a future production. In Australia, he also returned to Sydney Symphony, as well as making his debut with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. In 24/25 Daniel returns for a sixth season to the Deutsche Oper Berlin, as well as conducting new productions of Der fliegende Holländer, Jenůfa and Il trittico in Coburg as well as many concert programs. Future plans include further productions at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, his return to Opera Malmö, as well as his debut at the Royal Swedish Opera. In the 22/23 season he conducted Don Quichotte in Berlin, Siegfried, La damnation de Faust and Der goldene Hahn in Coburg and a New Production of Nixon in China at the Staatsoper Hannover. Concert appearances included the concert season in Coburg, as well as debuts with the Neubrandenburger Philharmonie and the Neue Lausitzer Philharmonie. Highlights of the last season in Berlin included Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Carmen and Die Fledermaus, as well as Siegfried at Oper Leipzig, Pelléas et Mélisande at Bühnen Bern and his debut at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro. In Coburg there were productions of of Die Walküre – where he will conduct the new Ring Production over the coming seasons, L’Enfant et les sortileges/L’heure espagnole and The Rake’s Progress and numerous symphonic concerts. In recent seasons he has given debuts at the Oper Köln (La Boheme), with the Münchener Kammerorchester, at Konzerttheater Bern (The Swiss Premiere of Kurt Weill’s Love Life and Pelléas et Mélisande), Theater Trier (Hänsel und Gretel), Theater Erfurt (Die Zauberflöte), as well as with the Akademie of the Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. After his engagement in 2013 at the Hamburg Staatsoper, first as a Repetiteur, then as Conductor and Musical Assistant to Simone Young, Daniel became Principal Conductor at Theater Freiburg in 2015. In Freiburg he conducted a wide opera repertoire, including Cosi fan tutte, Carmen, La Boheme, Pelleas et Melisande, Die Sache Makropulos, Katja Kabanova, Eugene Onegin, Il Trovatore, L’Elisir d’Amore, Die Fledermaus, Orphee (Gluck/Berlioz), Mefistofele, I gioielli della Madonna (Wolf-Ferrari), Cendrillon (Massenet), Angels in America (Eötvös), Zaide/Adama (Mozart/Czernowin) and a wide range of world premieres and symphony concerts. Daniel Carter studied Composition and Piano Performance at the University of Melbourne, Australia. During his studies he worked as Developing Artist Conductor and Musical Assistant to the Music Director at Victorian Opera. In 2012 he was awarded the Brian Stacey Award for Emerging Australian Conductors. This was followed by multiple engagements with Victorian Opera (including the Australian Premiere of Elliott Carter’s What Next?), Opera Australia, The Australian Ballet, Sydney Theatre Company, the Sydney and Melbourne Festivals, with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra and Australian Youth Orchestra.