Generalmusikdirektor of Theater Chemnitz and Principal Conductor of the Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie, maintains an extensive international conducting career that has taken him to some of the world’s most prestigious stages, including the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Wiener Staatsoper, Opéra de Paris, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro Real and Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, and Ópera de Oviedo.
He made his operatic conducting debut in 2003 with Hänsel und Gretel at the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn. In 2009, he replaced Daniele Gatti in Macbeth at the Wiener Staatsoper, an institution with which he has maintained a close relationship since 2002. There, he has been responsible for the musical preparation of over 50 operatic titles and has conducted more than 200 performances of opera and ballet, including La traviata, Rigoletto, Lucia di Lammermoor, Il barbiere di Siviglia, La sonnambula, The Nutcracker, Giselle, Anna Karenina, Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, and the world premiere of Persinette.
In Spain, he made his opera debut in 2011 with Tristan und Isolde at the Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo, where in 2013 he launched a complete staging of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen. In 2016, he debuted at the Opera di Firenze conducting Goyescas by Granados and El amor brujo by Falla, and later that year at the Palais Garnier in Paris. Also in 2016, he led the modern-day premiere of Elena e Malvina with the Spanish National Orchestra and Choir.
Since the 2017/2018 season, García Calvo has served as Generalmusikdirektor of Oper Chemnitz, where he has given special prominence to Wagner’s works, producing a new staging of Der Ring des Nibelungen, whose Götterdämmerung was awarded the 2019 Faust Prize for Best Opera Production in Germany. From 2020 to 2023, he was also Music Director of the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, a position he combined with numerous guest conducting engagements, including Siegfried at Ópera de Oviedo (for which he received the Ópera XXI Award for Best Musical Direction), Katiuska at the Zarzuela, La Gioconda at the Gran Teatre del Liceu (earning the Critics’ Award from Amics del Liceu), and Don Giovanni at the Opéra de Paris.
His recent productions include Lohengrin, Die Walküre, Götterdämmerung, Das Rheingold, Siegfried, Tristan und Isolde, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Aida, The Cunning Little Vixen, Der Freischütz, and Wozzeck at Oper Chemnitz; Farinelli, La del manojo de rosas, Las Calatravas, Circe, Entre Sevilla y Triana, The Magic Opal, La Celestina, Pan y toros, La Dolores, El caballero de Olmedo, and Doña Francisquita at the Teatro de la Zarzuela; Ernani at Ópera de Las Palmas; Carmen at the Semperoper Dresden; Coppélia at the Opéra de Paris; Nabucco at the Wiener Staatsoper; Pan y toros at Les Arts in Valencia; ballet programs such as a Nureyev Gala and La fille mal gardée with the Wiener Staatsballett; and concerts with the Orquesta de Córdoba, RTVE Symphony, Oviedo Filarmonía, Orquesta de Extremadura, ORCAM, Franz Schubert Filharmonia, as well as gala concerts with Juan Diego Flórez in Baden-Baden and Javier Camarena at the Castell de Peralada Festival.
This season, he has conducted Ariadne auf Naxos at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, La traviata with Kristina Mkhitaryan at Ópera de Las Palmas, L’elisir d’amore with Ramón Vargas in Coruña, Pagliacci at the Granada International Festival of Music and Dance, a Wagner Gala with Andreas Schager and the Kärntner Sinfonieorchester, and concerts with the Royal Seville Symphony Orchestra, the Valencia Orchestra, the Bruckner Orchester Linz, and at the Volkstheater Rostock, among others.
In the 2025/26 season, he will conduct Der fliegende Holländer at the Ópera de Tenerife and at the Teatre Principal in Palma, Pepita Jiménez at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid and at the Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo, Andrea Chénier at ABAO Ópera in Bilbao, the ballet Mayerling in Stuttgart, and several concerts in Saarbrücken, Málaga, Wuppertal, and Miskolc.
Born in Madrid in 1978, García Calvo graduated from the University of Music in Vienna, where he completed a thesis on Parsifal and conducted the Tannhäuser overture in the Great Hall of the Musikverein. Between 2000 and 2002, he trained as an assistant to Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra, and in the summer of 2007, he worked with Christian Thielemann as musical assistant on Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Festival.
Date of last modification: January 2026
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He made his operatic conducting debut in 2003 with Hänsel und Gretel at the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn. In 2009, he replaced Daniele Gatti in Macbeth at the Wiener Staatsoper, an institution with which he has maintained a close relationship since 2002. There, he has been responsible for the musical preparation of over 50 operatic titles and has conducted more than 200 performances of opera and ballet, including La traviata, Rigoletto, Lucia di Lammermoor, Il barbiere di Siviglia, La sonnambula, The Nutcracker, Giselle, Anna Karenina, Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, and the world premiere of Persinette.
In Spain, he made his opera debut in 2011 with Tristan und Isolde at the Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo, where in 2013 he launched a complete staging of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen. In 2016, he debuted at the Opera di Firenze conducting Goyescas by Granados and El amor brujo by Falla, and later that year at the Palais Garnier in Paris. Also in 2016, he led the modern-day premiere of Elena e Malvina with the Spanish National Orchestra and Choir.
Since the 2017/2018 season, García Calvo has served as Generalmusikdirektor of Oper Chemnitz, where he has given special prominence to Wagner’s works, producing a new staging of Der Ring des Nibelungen, whose Götterdämmerung was awarded the 2019 Faust Prize for Best Opera Production in Germany. From 2020 to 2023, he was also Music Director of the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, a position he combined with numerous guest conducting engagements, including Siegfried at Ópera de Oviedo (for which he received the Ópera XXI Award for Best Musical Direction), Katiuska at the Zarzuela, La Gioconda at the Gran Teatre del Liceu (earning the Critics’ Award from Amics del Liceu), and Don Giovanni at the Opéra de Paris.
His recent productions include Lohengrin, Die Walküre, Götterdämmerung, Das Rheingold, Siegfried, Tristan und Isolde, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Aida, The Cunning Little Vixen, Der Freischütz, and Wozzeck at Oper Chemnitz; Farinelli, La del manojo de rosas, Las Calatravas, Circe, Entre Sevilla y Triana, The Magic Opal, La Celestina, Pan y toros, La Dolores, El caballero de Olmedo, and Doña Francisquita at the Teatro de la Zarzuela; Ernani at Ópera de Las Palmas; Carmen at the Semperoper Dresden; Coppélia at the Opéra de Paris; Nabucco at the Wiener Staatsoper; Pan y toros at Les Arts in Valencia; ballet programs such as a Nureyev Gala and La fille mal gardée with the Wiener Staatsballett; and concerts with the Orquesta de Córdoba, RTVE Symphony, Oviedo Filarmonía, Orquesta de Extremadura, ORCAM, Franz Schubert Filharmonia, as well as gala concerts with Juan Diego Flórez in Baden-Baden and Javier Camarena at the Castell de Peralada Festival.
This season, he has conducted Ariadne auf Naxos at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, La traviata with Kristina Mkhitaryan at Ópera de Las Palmas, L’elisir d’amore with Ramón Vargas in Coruña, Pagliacci at the Granada International Festival of Music and Dance, a Wagner Gala with Andreas Schager and the Kärntner Sinfonieorchester, and concerts with the Royal Seville Symphony Orchestra, the Valencia Orchestra, the Bruckner Orchester Linz, and at the Volkstheater Rostock, among others.
In the 2025/26 season, he will conduct Der fliegende Holländer at the Ópera de Tenerife and at the Teatre Principal in Palma, Pepita Jiménez at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid and at the Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo, Andrea Chénier at ABAO Ópera in Bilbao, the ballet Mayerling in Stuttgart, and several concerts in Saarbrücken, Málaga, Wuppertal, and Miskolc.
Born in Madrid in 1978, García Calvo graduated from the University of Music in Vienna, where he completed a thesis on Parsifal and conducted the Tannhäuser overture in the Great Hall of the Musikverein. Between 2000 and 2002, he trained as an assistant to Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra, and in the summer of 2007, he worked with Christian Thielemann as musical assistant on Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Festival.
Date of last modification: January 2026
May not be altered without permission. Please destroy any previous biographical material.
2025-2026 Performances
PEPITA JIMÉNEZ
01 of October 0f 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid)
02 of October 0f 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid)
03 of October 0f 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid)
04 of October 0f 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid)
05 of October 0f 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid)
08 of October 0f 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid)
09 of October 0f 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid)
10 of October 0f 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid)
11 of October 0f 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid)
15 of October 0f 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid)
16 of October 0f 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid)
17 of October 0f 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid)
18 of October 0f 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid)
19 of October 0f 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid)
DER FLIEGENDER HOLLÄNDER
16 of November of 2025 Tenerife Auditorium
19 of November of 2025 Tenerife Auditorium
22 of November of 2025 Tenerife Auditorium
18 of February of 2026 Teatre Principal (Palma)
20 of February of 2026 Teatre Principal (Palma)
22 of February of 2026 Teatre Principal (Palma)
SYMPHONY No. 7 BY BEETHOVEN
15 of December of 2025 Palace of Music (Miskolc, Hungary)
SWR COMPETITION "YOUNG OPERA STARS"
17 of January of 2026 Deutsche Radio Philarmonie (Landau, Germany)
18 of January of 2026 Deutsche Radio Philarmonie (Kaiserslautern, Germany)
SYMPHONY No. 1 BY RACHMANINOV
26 of April of 2026 Historische Stadhalle (Wuppertal, Germany)
27 of April of 2026 Historische Stadhalle (Wuppertal, Germany)
ANDREA CHÉNIER
23 of May of 2026 ABAO (Bilbao)
26 of May of 2026 ABAO (Bilbao)
29 of May of 2026 ABAO (Bilbao)
01 of June of 2026 ABAO (Bilbao)
MAYERLING
2 of July of 2026 The Stuttgart Ballet (Germany)
3 of July of 2026 The Stuttgart Ballet (Germany)
7 of July of 2026 The Stuttgart Ballet (Germany)
FLÓREZ 30
18 of August of 2026 Rossini Opera Festival (Pesaro, Italy)
01 of October 0f 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid)
02 of October 0f 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid)
03 of October 0f 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid)
04 of October 0f 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid)
05 of October 0f 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid)
08 of October 0f 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid)
09 of October 0f 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid)
10 of October 0f 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid)
11 of October 0f 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid)
15 of October 0f 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid)
16 of October 0f 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid)
17 of October 0f 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid)
18 of October 0f 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid)
19 of October 0f 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid)
DER FLIEGENDER HOLLÄNDER
16 of November of 2025 Tenerife Auditorium
19 of November of 2025 Tenerife Auditorium
22 of November of 2025 Tenerife Auditorium
18 of February of 2026 Teatre Principal (Palma)
20 of February of 2026 Teatre Principal (Palma)
22 of February of 2026 Teatre Principal (Palma)
SYMPHONY No. 7 BY BEETHOVEN
15 of December of 2025 Palace of Music (Miskolc, Hungary)
SWR COMPETITION "YOUNG OPERA STARS"
17 of January of 2026 Deutsche Radio Philarmonie (Landau, Germany)
18 of January of 2026 Deutsche Radio Philarmonie (Kaiserslautern, Germany)
SYMPHONY No. 1 BY RACHMANINOV
26 of April of 2026 Historische Stadhalle (Wuppertal, Germany)
27 of April of 2026 Historische Stadhalle (Wuppertal, Germany)
ANDREA CHÉNIER
23 of May of 2026 ABAO (Bilbao)
26 of May of 2026 ABAO (Bilbao)
29 of May of 2026 ABAO (Bilbao)
01 of June of 2026 ABAO (Bilbao)
MAYERLING
2 of July of 2026 The Stuttgart Ballet (Germany)
3 of July of 2026 The Stuttgart Ballet (Germany)
7 of July of 2026 The Stuttgart Ballet (Germany)
FLÓREZ 30
18 of August of 2026 Rossini Opera Festival (Pesaro, Italy)
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