Daniel Carter, Music Director of the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar has been a regular conductor at the Deutsche Oper Berlin since 2019, at Malmö Opera since 2024, and at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm since 2025. In the 2026/27 season, Carter returns to Malmö Opera for a new production of Rusalka and to the Deutsche Oper Berlin for the revival of Nixon in China - a production he originally conducted at its premiere in 2024. This season in Weimar, Carter is conducting new productions of Messiah, Parsifal, and Amphitryon. Highlights of recent seasons at Deutsche Oper Berlin include Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Carmen and Die Fledermaus, alongside Siegfried at the Leipzig Opera, Pelléas et Mélisande at Bühnen Bern, and his debut at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. In recent years, he has made debuts at the Cologne Opera (La Bohème), with the Munich Chamber Orchestra, at Konzerttheater Bern (the Swiss premiere of Kurt Weill’s Love Life and Pelléas et Mélisande), and with the Academy of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. He made his debut at the Leipzig Opera with Siegfried, at Malmö Opera with a new production of Turandot, and at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm with a new production of Madama Butterfly. In 2023, Daniel Carter made his debut at the Vienna State Opera (The Magic Flute).  From 2013 to 2015, he held a position at the Hamburg State Opera, initially as a répétiteur and subsequently as a conductor and musical assistant to General Music Director Simone Young. Between 2015 and 2019, Daniel Carter served as First Kapellmeister at Theater Freiburg, where he conducted a broad operatic repertoire—including Così fan tutte, Carmen, La Bohème, Pelléas et Mélisande, The Makropulos Affair, Káťa Kabanová, Eugene Onegin, Il Trovatore, L’elisir d’amore, Die Fledermaus, Orphée (Gluck/Berlioz), Mefistofele, I gioielli della Madonna (Wolf-Ferrari), Cendrillon (Massenet), Angels in America (Eötvös), and Zaide/Adama (Mozart/Czernowin)—as well as numerous world premieres and concerts. From 2021 to 2026, Daniel Carter served as General Music Director (GMD) of the City of Coburg; during this tenure, he relocated the theater to the impressive new "Globe" venue. Daniel Carter studied composition and piano at the University of Melbourne. During his studies, he worked as a Developing Artist Conductor and assistant to the music director at Victorian Opera. In 2012, he received the Brian Stacey Award, a prize for emerging Australian conductors. This was followed by numerous engagements with Victorian Opera (including the Australian premiere of Elliott Carter’s What Next?), Opera Australia, The Australian Ballet, the Sydney Theatre Company, the Melbourne and Sydney Festivals, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, and the Australian Youth Orchestra.