Joana Mallwitz

Joana Mallwitz is one of the most popular women conductors of her generation and was voted “Woman conductor of the year” by the Opernwelt magazine. Since the start of the 2018/19 season she has been general musical director of the Nuremberg State Theatre and Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg, where she recently conducted concerts and the new production of Verdi’s Don Carlos, Prokofiev’s War and Peace and Wagner’s Lohengrin, among other works. She began her career as conductor at Heidelberg Theatre where she already displayed a wide repertoire. She studied conducting with Martin Brauss and Eiji Oue and piano with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling and Bernd Goetzke at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover. In 2009 she won the prestigious Lower Saxony Praetorius Musik-Förderpreis. From 2014 to 2018 she was general musical director of Theater Erfurt where she conducted among other works new productions of Wozzeck, The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, Tosca, Così fan tutte, Madama Butterfly, Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute and The Merry Widow. Joana Mallwitz has also conducted as guest at Zurich Opera (Macbeth), Hamburg State Opera (L‘elisir d’amore) and the Latvian National Opera in Riga (Rheingold and Götterdämmerung). She conducted the new production of Fauré’s Pénélope and Strauss´s Salome at Frankfurt Opera. After her successful début with L´elisir d´amore and Eugene Onegin at the Bayerische Staatsoper, she is returning in spring to conduct works by Schubert, Liszt and Mahler in the Academy Concerts series. She will conduct other symphonic works at the Wiener Konzerthaus with a concert performance of Die Walküre (Act I) with the Vienna Symphonic, at Stuttgart Opera with works by Messiaen, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, and the Duesseldorfer Symphoniker with works by Shostakovich, Schubert and Ravel. She conducted a very successful new production of Der Rosenkavalier at the Norwegian Opera Opera in Oslo, following The Merry Widow and Pelléas et Mélisande at Frankfurt Opera. After her successes with Cavalleria rusticana, I Pagliacci, Der fliegende Holländer, Madama Butterfly and Macbeth at the Royal Danish Opera, she is returning for a series of performances of The Magic Flute. Her schedule includes performances in Amsterdam (Der fliegende Holländer) and her début at the Wiener Staatsoper (Madama Butterfly).