Theater Bremen has announced that Stefan Klingele will be its new Music Director and Chief Conductor.

In a statement, the conductor said, “I am looking forward to many scenic and musically touching performances in the next years, to which I invite the wonderful Bremen audience already. For me, the theater is the perfect place to share stories, to question and enjoy life together. “

Klingele has been music director and chief conductor of the Musikalische Komödie in Leipzig since 2015 and has conducted at the Royal Swedish Opera, Semperoper Dresden, Volksoper Wien, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Staatsoper Hannover, and Deutsche Oper am Rhein.

He has also conducted the Royal Court Orchestra Stockholm, the Nuremberg Philharmonic, the Bavarian State Orchestra, the Hanover State Orchestra, the Duisburg Philharmonic, the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra, the Kassel State Orchestra, the Lower Rhine Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, the Bremen Philharmonic and the Orchestra of the Slovenian National Theatre.