Generalmusikdirektor of the Theater Chemnitz, Guillermo García Calvo has a long career as a conductor on international stages such as the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Wiener Staatsoper and the Paris Opera, among others, and Spanish stages such as the Opera de Oviedo, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatro Real and the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid.
He made his debut as an opera conductor in 2003 with Hansel and Gretel in the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn (at the age of 25) and, in 2009, he replaced Daniele Gatti in a new production of Macbeth at the Wiener Staatsoper, a stage with which he maintains a close relationship since 2002, having been responsible for the musical preparation of more than fifty titles in the opera repertoire and having conducted more than 200 opera and ballet performances: L'elisir d'amore, Rigoletto, La fille du régiment, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Lucia di Lammermoor, The Magic Flute, La traviata, Nabucco, La Sonnambula, Coppélia, The Nutcracker, Onegin, Don Quixote, Giselle, Mayerling, Anna Karenina, Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake or the recent world premiere of Persinette. In Spain he made his operatic debut in 2011 with Tristan und Isolde at the Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo, where in September 2013 he began the premiere of the Wagnerian tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen. In 2016, he made his debut at the Florence Opera with the orchestra of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino conducting Goyescas by Enric Granados and El amor brujo by Manuel de Falla, and in the same year, debuted at the Palais Garnier in Paris. Also in 2016 he was responsible for the "premiere in modern times" of the opera Elena e Malvina by Ramón Carnicer with the Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España.
Appointed Generalmusikdirektor of the Chemnitz Opera (Germany) and Principal Conductor of the Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie since the 2017/2018 season, he has given Richard Wagner’s works an important role in the repertoire of that theater, creating a new production of the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen, one of whose operas, Götterdämmerung (The Twilight of the Gods) received in 2019 the Faust award for the best opera production in Germany. Between 2020 and 2023 he has been Music Director of the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid.
Guillermo García Calvo combines these positions with conducting operas and concerts on other stages, highlighting his work in titles such as Siegfried (Opera de Oviedo), which won him the Opera XXI award for best musical direction in the 2017/2018 season, Katiuska (Teatro de la Zarzuela), La Gioconda (Gran Teatre del Liceu), which won him the Amics del Liceu Critics’ Award for best musical direction, L'elisir d'amore at the New National Theater in Tokyo and Don Giovanni at the Opéra de Paris.
Among his recent projects are 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 the Chemnitz Opera; Farinelli by Bretón, 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 in Madrid; Ernani at the Ópera de Las Palmas; Carmen at the Semperoper Dresden; Coppélia at the Opèra de Paris; Nabucco at the Wiener Staatsoper; Pan y toros at Les Arts in Valencia; musical direction of ballet performances in a Nureyev Gala and La fille mal gardée with the Wiener Staatsballett and concerts with the Orquesta de Córdoba, ORTVE, Oviedo Filarmonía, Orquesta de Extremadura, ORCAM, Franz Schubert Filharmonia, as well as Lyric Galas with Juan Diego Flórez in Baden Baden and with Javier Camarena at the Festival Castell de Peralada.
This season he will conduct Ariadne auf Naxos at Teatro de la Maestranza, La traviata with Kristina Mkhitaryan at Opera Las Palmas, L’elisir d’amore with Ramón Vargas in Coruña, a Wagner Gala with Andreas Schager and the Kärntner Sinfonieorchester, and concerts with the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, Orquesta de Valencia, Bruckner Orchester Linz and at the Volkstheater Rostock, among others.
Born in Madrid in 1978, Guillermo García Calvo graduated from the Universität für Musik in Vienna with a thesis on Parsifal and with a concert in the Great Hall of Musikverein conducting the overture of Tannhäuser. Between 2000 and 2002 he completed his training as an assistant to Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra and in the summer of 2007 with Christian Thielemann at the Bayreuth Festival as a music assistant for Der Ring des Nibelungen.
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Agenda 2024-2025
CONCERTS WITH THE NORDDEUTSCHE PHILHARMONIE ROSTOCK 20 October 2024 Theater Rostock (Germany) 21 October 2024 Theater Rostock (Germany) 22 October 2024 Theater Rostock (Germany)
CONCERT WITH THE ORQUESTA SINFÓNICA DE BURGOS 03 November 2024 Auditorio Fórum (Burgos)
ARIADNE AUF NAXOS 14 December 2024 Teatro de la Maestranza (Sevilla) 16 December 2024 Teatro de la Maestranza (Sevilla) 18 December 2024 Teatro de la Maestranza (Sevilla) CONCERT WITH THE ORQUESTA DE VALENCIA 21 February 2025 Palau de la Música (Valencia)
CONCERT WITH THE BRUCKNER ORCHESTER LINZ 23 March 2025 Landestheater Linz (Austria)
LA TRAVIATA 20 May 2025 Ópera de Las Palmas (Spain) 22 May 2025 Ópera de Las Palmas (Spain) 24 May 2025 Ópera de Las Palmas (Spain)
ITURBI INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION 10 June 2025 Valencia (Spain) 11 June 2025 Valencia (Spain) 13 June 2025 Valencia (Spain)
CONCERTS WITH THE REAL ORQUESTA SINFÓNICA DE SEVIILA 03 July 2025 Teatro de la Maestranza (Sevilla) 04 July 2025 Teatro de la Maestranza (Sevilla)