ABOUT

Daniel Carter, Music Director of Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar and General Music Director of Landestheater Coburg, has served as a Conductor at the Deutsche Oper Berlin since August 2019. In his first season in Berlin his performances included A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hänsel und Gretel, La bohème and Les Contes d’Hoffmann. In the 2023/24 season, Daniel made his debut at the Wiener Staatsoper with Die Zauberflöte and returned to the Deutsche Oper Berlin for a new production of John Adams’ Nixon in China. He also successfully debuted at the Malmö Opera with a new production of Turandot as well as Siegfried at Oper Leipzig, Pelléas et Mélisande at Bühnen Bern, and his debut at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro.  In the current 2025/26 season, Daniel makes his debut at the Royal Swedish Opera in a new production of Madama Butterfly and returns to the Deutsche Oper Berlin to conduct Turandot. His activities this year reflect a hybrid season, divided between his posts in Coburg and Weimar. In the 2024/25 season, he returned for a sixth season to the Deutsche Oper Berlin, while also conducting new productions of Der fliegende Holländer, Jenůfa, and Il trittico in Coburg, alongside numerous concert programs. After his engagement in 2013 at the Staatsoper Hamburg, first as a Repetiteur, then as Conductor and Musical Assistant to Simone Young, Daniel became Principal Conductor at Theater Freiburg in 2015. Daniel 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.