Evan Rogister

Evan Rogister is the newly appointed Principal Conductor of Washington National Opera and the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra. A dual citizen of the United States and Germany, Rogister enjoys meaningful artistic partnerships on both sides of the Atlantic. From 2018 to 2021, Rogister conducts Göteborg Opera’s first-ever complete cycle of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen. Rogister collaborates with director Stephen Langridge on Die Walküre in 2019 and the entire cycle will culminate in 2021, the 400th Anniversary of the city of Göteborg with Götterdämmerung. For his first productions as Principal Conductor of Washington National Opera, Rogister leads Don Giovanni and Porgy and Bess. Evan Rogister’s 2019/20 season includes a documentary recording for Swedish Television with the Swedish