Biography
Coming from an artistic Swiss family, Philippe Jordan’s career has taken him to all the world’s major opera houses, festivals and orchestras, and he is regarded as one of the most established and important conductors of our time. He has been Music Director of the Wiener Staatsoper since September 2020. Jordan started his career at the age of 20 as musical director at Theater Ulm. In 1998 he became assistant to Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin State Opera. From 2001-2004 he was principal conductor of Graz Opera and the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra. During this period he also debuted at several of the world’s leading opera houses and festivals, for example the Metropolitan Opera New York, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Teatro alla Scala, Bavarian State Opera, the Wiener Staatsoper and Festsp
Performance credits
Upcoming performances Today Onwards
Past performances 1997 — Yesterday
Götterdämmerung (The Twilight of the Gods), Wagner, Richard
State Opera BerlinConductor
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Götterdämmerung (The Twilight of the Gods), Wagner, Richard
State Opera BerlinConductor
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Upcoming performances
26Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), Mozart
Wiener StaatsoperConductor
View cast and crewDie Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Master-Singers of Nuremberg), Wagner, Richard
Wiener StaatsoperConductor
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Biography
Coming from an artistic Swiss family, Philippe Jordan’s career has taken him to all the world’s major opera houses, festivals and orchestras, and he is regarded as one of the most established and important conductors of our time. He has been Music Director of the Wiener Staatsoper since September 2020. Jordan started his career at the age of 20 as musical director at Theater Ulm. In 1998 he became assistant to Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin State Opera. From 2001-2004 he was principal conductor of Graz Opera and the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra. During this period he also debuted at several of the world’s leading opera houses and festivals, for example the Metropolitan Opera New York, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Teatro alla Scala, Bavarian State Opera, the Wiener Staatsoper and Festsp
