Simone Young
The Australian conductor Simone Young has been recognized for many years as one of the most important conductors of our time. In 2022, she took up the position of Chief Conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. In the summer of 2024, she made her debut at the Bayreuth Festival, where she will return in 2025. In the 2024/25 season, she will conduct the new production of Kurtág’s Fin de partie at the Vienna State Opera. Following this, she will return to the Opéra de Paris for a revival of Don Carlos and will conduct Salome at the Zurich Opera and Elektra at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden.
In the symphonic field, she will conduct the Berlin Philharmonic, the Filarmonica della Scala, the Orquestra Nacional de España, the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Lyon, the Orchestre National de France, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, and the Frankfurt Museum Concerts. From 2005 to the end of the 2014/2015 season, she served as Artistic Director of the Hamburg State Opera and General Music Director of the Hamburg Philharmonic. During this time, she devoted herself intensively to her work in Hamburg, conducting a wide range of premieres and repertoire performances, from Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, and Strauss to Hindemith, Britten, and Henze. She achieved great success with world premieres and numerous German premieres at both the Hamburg State Opera and the Hamburg Philharmonic.
From 1998 to 2002, she was Chief Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, and from 2001 to 2003, she was Artistic Director of the Australian Opera, leading the opera houses in both Sydney and Melbourne. Early in her career, Simone Young made a name for herself internationally as a conductor of Wagner and Strauss, leading multiple complete cycles of The Ring of the Nibelung at the Vienna State Opera, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, and in a new production at the Hamburg State Opera. She made her debut at the Vienna State Opera in 1993 to great acclaim and has regularly returned as both a premiere and repertoire conductor.
Her engagements have taken her to the world’s leading opera houses, including the Opéra National de Paris, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Bavarian State Opera, the Zurich Opera, the Berlin State Opera, and the Semperoper Dresden. In 2023, she made her debut at La Scala in Milan with a new production of Peter Grimes.
In addition to her extensive work in opera, Simone Young has also made a name for herself on the concert podium. She has collaborated with leading orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Washington Symphony Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, the Oslo Philharmonic, and various Australian orchestras.
Simone Young is the recipient of several prestigious awards, holds honorary doctorates from the universities of Sydney and Melbourne, and has been honored with the titles Member of the Order of Australia and Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in France, as well as the Goethe Medal. She also received the Brahms Prize from Schleswig-Holstein. In April 2022, she was awarded honorary membership of the Vienna State Opera. Her artistic work is documented through numerous CD and DVD recordings.
Performances with Simone Young
with Charles Workman, Hilary Summers, Philippe Sly, Georg Nigl, Conductor: Simone Young
Fin de partie
Cast on Tuesday 30. September 2025
Abo 1
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Saison 2024/2025
Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.
In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:
10. September 2024: CARMEN
08. Oktober 2024: BALLETT: SCHWANENSEE
28. Jänner 2025: ARIADNE AUF NAXOS
27. Mai 2025: IL TROVATORE
17. Juni 2025: DER ROSENKAVALIER
with Charles Workman, Hilary Summers, Philippe Sly, Georg Nigl, Conductor: Simone Young
Fin de partie
Cast on Friday 3. October 2025
Abo 8
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Saison 2024/2025
Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.
In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:
08. November 2024: MADAMA BUTTERFLY
06. Dezember 2024: BALLETT: THE WINTER’S TALE
07. Februar 2025: DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE
16. Mai 2025: NORMA
13. Juni 2025: IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA
with Charles Workman, Hilary Summers, Philippe Sly, Georg Nigl, Conductor: Simone Young
Fin de partie
Cast on Monday 6. October 2025
Abo 13
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Saison 2024/2025
Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.
In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:
09. September 2024: LA TRAVIATA
04. November 2024: MADAMA BUTTERFLY
13. Jänner 2025: TURANDOT
24. Februar 2025: BALLETT: DIE KAMELIENDAME
17. März 2025: L’ELISIR D’AMORE
with Charles Workman, Hilary Summers, Philippe Sly, Georg Nigl, Conductor: Simone Young
Fin de partie
Cast on Friday 10. October 2025
Abo 6
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Saison 2024/2025
Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.
In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:
22. November 2024: IL RITORNO D’ULISSE IN PATRIA
10. Jänner 2025: TURANDOT
21. Februar 2025: IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA
07. März 2025: BALLETT: DIE KAMELIENDAME
04. April 2025: IOLANTA