"Without doubt, one of the great wagner conductors"
Le monde

British conductor Alexander Soddy ranks among the most sought-after conductors of his generation, and is regularly engaged by top orchestras and opera houses around the world.In the 2024/25 Season Soddy will debut at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino with Salome and return to some of the houses where he has become a regular fixture, including to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden with Fidelio; the Berlin State Opera with Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Il Trovatore and Kurtag’s Fin de Partie; the Metropolitan Opera with Aida and La Bohème; and for the first time in a number of years to the Hamburg State Opera with Salome. Concert engagements this season will see him debut with the Orchestra Sinfoncia di Milano and return to the Netherlands Philharmonic and the Bournemouth Symphony. Some of the highlights of Soddy’s recent season include premiering Kirill Serebrennikov's new production of Lohengrin at the Opéra national de Paris, returning to Londons’ Philharmonia for a concert performance of Strauss’ Capriccio at the Edinburgh International Festival, and making his Concertgebouw debut conducting the Netherlands Philharmonic in Mahler’s 5th Symphony.

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One of the most eminent conducting talents in opera for years

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Upcoming Schedule

Saito Kinen - Ozawa Festival

Shostakovich Symphony No.5
Matsumoto, Japan

Shostakovich Symphony 5 and Shostakovich Violin Concerto with Daishin Kashimoto as soloist. Saito Kinen Orchestra of the Ozawa Matsumoto Festival.

23 August
2025
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Teatro del Maggio Musicale, Firenze

Macbeth, Giuseppe Verdi
Florence

Featuring Luca Salsi, Antonio Di Matteo, Vanessa Goikoetxea and Antonio Poli

12-19 October
2025
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Teatro alla Scala, Milano

Cosi Fan Tutte, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Milan

Premiere with Robert Carsen. Featuring Elsa Dreisig, Nina van Essen, Sandrine Piau, Luca Micheletti, Giovanni Sala and Gerald Finley

5-26 November
2025
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Vienna State Opera

Elektra, Richard Strauss
Vienna

Featuring Ausrine Stundyte, Nina Stemme, Camilla Nylund, Derek Welton and Jörg Schneider

14-23 December
2025
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Edward Elgar - Symphony No.1 and Cockaigne Overture

Recorded live by the Nationaltheater Orchestra of Mannheim

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"SODDY'S CONDUCTING OF SALOME WAS AN EVENT THE LIKES OF WHICH HAS NOT BEEN EXPERIENCED AT THE VIENNA STATE OPERA IN RECENT DECADES"

Der Standard

"the dissonant lyricism and searing nostalgia that surged out of the pit were simply breathtaking. This is wonderful Strauss conducting, and a most auspicious Covent Garden debut"

the Guardian