The Staatstheater Nürnberg has named Killian Farrell its new General Music Director and Chief Conductor.

Farrell will begin in his new position during the 2027-28 season and will succeed Roland Böer. 

In a statement, the conductor said, “I can’t wait to thrill the Nuremberg audience together with the State Philharmonic and the Opera Ensemble evening after night.”

The theater’s Artistic Director, Jens-Daniel Herzog added, “Killian Farrell is a musician whose enthusiasm and knowledge of music are absolutely contagious. With his inexhaustible energy, he will lead the Nuremberg State Philharmonic Orchestra into the Congress Hall and thus into a new chapter in its history.”

Farrell has been General Music Director of the Meiningen State Theater since the 2023-24 season and is a regular guest conductor at many of Germany’s major opera houses, including the Semperoper Dresden, the Hamburg State Opera, and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein.He mainatins a close relationship with the Stuttgart State Opera, where he served as Kapellmeister and has appeared frequently as a guest since then. He was also Principal Kapellmeister at the Theater Bremen from the 2019-20 season, where he had already served as Kapellmeister and Assistant to the General Music Director since 2017.