Ingo Metzmacher (born 10 November 1957) is a German conductor and artistic director of the festival KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen in Hanover.[1]
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Metzmacher was born in Hanover, the son of the cellist Rudolf Metzmacher and the research biologist Lore Schoen.[2] His musical education in piano, music theory and conducting was in Hanover, Salzburg and Cologne.[2] He later joined the Ensemble Modern in 1980 as its pianist and became the orchestra's conductor in 1985.[3] In 1987 he gave his opera debut at the Oper Frankfurt.[4][5]
In 1994 Metzmacher conducted the premiere of the revised version of Henze's Symphony No. 6.[6] In 1997 he conducted the world premiere of Henze's Symphony No. 9 at the composer's request.[7]
Between 1995 and 1999 he was principal guest conductor of the Bamberg Symphony[8] and from 1997 to 2005 he served as general music director of the City of Hamburg, which covered the Hamburg State Opera and its Philharmonic Orchestra.[9] In 2005 the Hamburg State Opera was voted Opera House of the Year by the leading German opera magazine, Opernwelt.[10] Metzmacher left his post in Hamburg after disputes with the city over funding.[11]
In 2005 he became chief conductor of De Nederlandse Opera (DNO) in Amsterdam.[12] In February 2007 the opera announced that Metzmacher would step down from his post as DNO's chief conductor in 2008.[13][5] From 2007 to 2010 he was the chief conductor and artistic director of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO-Berlin).[14] His original contract with the DSO-Berlin was through 2011. However, after reports of disputes over financing and a threatened reduction in the size of the orchestra, in March 2009 Metzmacher announced his early resignation from the DSO-Berlin principal conductorship as of the summer of 2010.[15][16] His final concerts as the orchestra's principal conductor were in June 2010 in Berlin[17] and in August 2010 at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall.[18]
Ingo Metzmacher is regularly conducting at leading opera houses, including Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Zurich Opera House, La Scala, Teatro Real, Vienna State Opera, Berlin State Opera, Paris Opera and Geneva Opera.[19]
He has led orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Russian National Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, and New Japan Philharmonic.[19]
- Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (with Angela Denoke, Misha Didyk, Kurt Rydl, Marian Talaba, Nadia Krasteva, Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera; Orfeo, 2011)[20]
- Franz Schubert: Heliopolis (Matthias Goerne, baritone; Ingo Metzmacher, piano; harmonia mundi, 2009)[21]
- Messiaen: Éclairs Sur L'Au-Delà... (with Vienna Philharmonic; Kairos, 2008)[22]
- Alban Berg: Wozzeck (with Bo Skovhus, Angela Denoke, Frode Olsen, Chris Merritt, Jan Blinkhof, Jürgen Sacher, Choir of the Hamburg State Opera, Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg; EMI Classics, 1999)[23]
- Henze: Symphony No. 9 (with Berlin Philharmonic; EMI Classics, 1998)[24]
- Luigi Nono: Prometeo. Tragedia Dell'Ascolto (with Ingrid Ade-Jesemann, Monika Bair-Ivenz, Peter Hall, Solistenchor Freiburg, Ensemble Modern; Ricordi/EMI Classics, 1995)[25]
- Henze: Requiem (with Ueli Wiget, Håkan Hardenberger, Ensemble Modern; Sony Classical, 1994)[26]
- Conlon Nancarrow: Studies (with Ensemble Modern; BMG, 1993)[27]
- Charles Ives: A Portrait (with Ensemble Modern; EMI, 1992)[28]
- Complete symphonies of Karl Amadeus Hartmann, recorded with the Bamberg Symphony between 1993 and 1997.[29][30][31]
"Ingo Metzmacher". Munzinger Biographie (in German). Archived from the original on 19 August 2024. Retrieved 8 September 2024. "Spielplan". Oper Frankfurt (in German). 8 September 2024. Archived from the original on 20 April 2024. Retrieved 8 September 2024. Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich; Preĭs, A.; Rydl, Kurt; Talaba, Marian; Denoke, Angela; Didyk, Misha; Ellen, Donna; Roider, Michael; Monarcha, Janusz; Kai, Eijiro; Derntl, Wolfram Igor; Metzmacher, Ingo; Krasteva, Nadia; Dumitrescu, Dan Paul; Leskov, N. S.; Wiener Staatsoper Orchester; Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor (2011), Lady Macbeth von Mzensk (in Russian), München: Orfeo, OCLC 990336459 Schubert, Franz; Goerne, Matthias; Metzmacher, Ingo (2009), Heliopolis (in German), Arles: Harmonia Mundi, OCLC 718104097 Messiaen, Olivier; Metzmacher, Ingo; Wiener Philharmoniker (2008), Eclairs sur l'au-delà .. (in German), [S.l.], [Hamburg: Kairos-Prod. Edel Entertainment, Vertrieb], OCLC 1184381283 Berg, Alban; Skovhus, Boje; Blinkhof, Jan; Sacher, Jürgen; Merritt, Chris; Olsen, Frode; Denoke, Angela; Augér, Arleen; Kammler, Steffen; Bruns, Jan Rainer; Metzmacher, Ingo; Rattle, Simon; Hamburgische Staatsoper Chor; Kinderchor Cantilene; Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (2010), Wozzeck [opera in three acts] (in German), Köln: EMI Music Germany, OCLC 1184285435 Henze, Hans Werner; Philharmoniker, Berliner; Metzmacher, Ingo; Berlin, Rundfunkchor, Hans Werner Henze, Sinfonia N. 9 (in undetermined language), OCLC 1011432307 Nono, Luigi; Cacciari, Massimo; Ade-Jesemann, Ingrid; Bair-Ivenz, Monika; Otto, Susanne; Rasker, Helena; Hall, Peter; Wiesner, Dietmar; Sluchin, Benny; Römer, Rainer; Fichter, Thomas; Didi, Evelyne; Wilms, André; Richard, André; Metzmacher, Ingo; Solistenchor; Ensemble Modern (1995), Prometeo tragedia dell'ascolto (in German), Köln: EMI-Electrola, OCLC 1183570127 Henze, Hans Werner; Modern, Ensemble; Hardenberger, Hakan; Metzmacher, Ingo; Wiget, Ueli, Hans Werner Henze, Requiem (in undetermined language), OCLC 1011431537 Nancarrow, Conlon (1992), Nancarrow - Studies - Ensemble Modern - Metzmacher (in undetermined language), OCLC 874620362 Ives, Charles; Herford, Henry; Metzmacher, Ingo; Ensemble Modern (1992), A portrait of Charles Ives (in German), Köln: EMI-Electrola, OCLC 1183677097 Guy Rickards (2000). "Record reviews ("Karl Amadeus Hartmann: Symphony No.1, 'Essay towards a Requiem'" and other issues in series)". Tempo (New Ser.), 211, pp. 43, 45.
Hartmann, Karl Amadeus; Pessati, Kismara; Stenz, Markus; Gaffigan, James; Schønwandt, Michael; Poppen, Christoph; Vänskä, Osmo; Metzmacher, Ingo; Radio Filharmonisch Orkest Holland; Radio Kamer Filharmonie (2013), Symphonies nos. 1-8 (in German), [The Netherlands]: Challenge Classics, OCLC 1347116812 "Ingo Metzmacher". Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste (in German). Retrieved 8 September 2024. "1998". Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (in German). Archived from the original on 12 December 2023. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
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