William Lacey

Conductor William Lacey was born in London in 1973. His wide opera and concert repertoire is equally weighted between the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, and also includes some works from the 17th and 21st centuries. From 2010 to 2013 he was Erster (koordinierter) Kapellmeister at the Oper Leipzig. In this position he conducted over one hundred performances with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, one of the oldest and most tradition-rich orchestras in the world. His Leipzig repertoire included "Mahagonny", "The Cunning Little Vixen", "Haensel und Gretel", "Die Fledermaus", "La Boheme", "La Rondine", "Macbeth", "La Traviata", "Il Barbiere di Siviglia", "Il Turco in Italia", "Don Giovanni", "Cosi fan Tutte", and "Die Zauberfloete"; as well as the ballet evenings "Cinderella" (Prokofiev), "Chap