As "one of the few conductors in the world who performs the newest music as adeptly as Beethoven, Wagner, and Sibelius"

(Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), Roland Kluttig can be experienced on international stages in opera and concert with a

wide-ranging repertoire. A particular focus of his work are the compositions of Schumann, Wagner, Berg, Debussy, Janáček,

and Sibelius.

 

Roland Kluttig kicked off the current season conducting the Ensemble Modern at the Tongyeong International Music

Festival. He will continue his work as Principal Guest Conductor at the Wermland Opera in Sweden with three concert

programmes, and he will also make his debut with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra. Another debut is scheduled for May

2026: following his great success with Alban Berg's Wozzeck at the Aalto Theater in Essen in 2024, he will make his first

guest appearance at the Staatstheater Nürnberg with a new production of Lulu directed by Jens-Daniel Herzog.

 

Following highly acclaimed productions of Dukas' Ariane et Barbe-Bleue and Szymanowski's Król Roger at Graz Opera, he

served as principal conductor there from 2020 to 2023. The Austrian premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas' opera Morgen und

Abend and Richard Wagner's The Flying Dutchman and Janáček's Katja Kabanova stand out from this period, as do

concerts with the Graz Philharmonic at the Musikverein Graz and the Konzerthaus Wien. In 2021, his conducting of Morton

Feldman's Neither at the Salzburg Festival with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra was hailed in the press as a

‘stellar moment’. He also conducted the first staged production of Die Walküre at the Greek National Opera to great

acclaim. Last season, he conducted a new production of Mieczysław Weinberg's opera The Passenger at the German

National Theatre in Weimar, staged by the directing duo Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito.

 

During his time as General Music Director at the Landestheater Coburg (2010 - 2020), productions of Wagner's Lohengrin

and Parsifal attracted national interest. He was nominated as Conductor of the Year by Opernwelt magazine for his

conducting of Beethoven's Fidelio. Since 2000, he has enjoyed a close collaboration with the Stuttgart State Opera. Among

other things, he brought out the spectacular new production of Strauss' Salome there in 2015 and a new production of

Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro in 2019.

 

Roland Kluttig has also been invited as a guest conductor at the Frankfurt Opera (Euryanthe) the Hamburg State Opera

(Die tote Stadt) the Leipzig Opera, the Mannheim National Theater, the Opéra Nice Côte d'Azur, the Opéra national du

Rhin, the Swedish Norrlandsoperan (Wozzeck and Peter Grimes); in concert he has worked with the Philharmonia Orchestra

London, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra,

Prague Philharmonia, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Symphonieorchester

des Bayerischen Rundfunks and many others.

 

His recordings of Schoenberg's Moses und Aron with the Stuttgart State Opera and Weinberg's The Passenger with the

Graz Opera received very positive reviews in the international press. He has also recorded works by less prominent

composers whose music is close to his heart, including Erwin Schulhoff with the DSO Berlin and Silvestre Revueltas with

the Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, of which he was Musical Director in the 1990s. Roland Kluttig studied in Dresden

and has been sponsored by the Eötvös Institute, the Conductors' Forum of the German Music Council, the Akademie

Schloss Solitude and the Herbert von Karajan Foundation. Since 2025, he has been a professor and director of the

university orchestra at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden.

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