In the opera world, he will return to the Vienna State Opera with Strauss' Daphne and to the Bavarian State Opera with Wagner's Tannhäuser. At the Deutsche Oper Berlin, he will lead the new production of Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame.

After several highly successful productions at Oper Frankfurt -- including Die Frau ohne Schatten, which brought him the nomination for "Conductor of the Year“ of the prestigious journal "Opernwelt" in 2003 -- Sebastian Weigle became Music Director at the beginning of the 2008/09 season, a post he will hold until 2022/23. In his last season in Frankfurt, he conducted the new productions of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, R. Stephan's Die ersten Menschen and Strauss' Elektra. From 2004 to 2009 he was also music director at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona where, in 2005, his Parsifal was awarded "Best Production of the Year" and, in 2006, Mr. Weigle himself was awarded "Conductor of the Year“ based on his conducting of Die tote Stadt. In the summer of 2007, he made his debut at the Bayreuther Festspiele with a new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.

Mr. Weigle’s many guest engagements have taken him to the opera houses of Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Dresden, Zurich and Mannheim, to the Wiener Staatsoper as well as the Volksoper, the New York Metropolitan Opera, and Tokyo. On concert stages he has conducted renowned orchestras such as the Radio Orchestras of Berlin, Munich, Vienna and Stuttgart, the Bamberger Symphoniker, and all the major Scandinavian orchestras. Mr. Weigle has conducted worldwide, giving concerts in such cities as Tokyo, Chicago and Melbourne.

Several CD recordings capture Mr. Weigle’s work on Beethoven, Mozart, Rott and many other composers. In 2012, his Ring des Nibelungen production of the Oper Frankfurt appeared on DVD (Oehms-Classic).

Born in 1961 in Berlin, Sebastian Weigle studied horn, piano and conducting at the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler and was appointed Principal Horn of the Staatskapelle Berlin in 1982. In 1987 he founded the Chamber Choir Berlin and was artistic director of Neues Berliner Kammerorchester. He later became music director of the Junge Philharmonie Brandenburg, in 1997. From 1997 to 2002 he was Staatskapellmeister at the Berliner Staatsoper.