Fabio Luisi will become Principal Guest Conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, beginning with the company’s 2010-2011 season, during which he will lead Ariadne auf Naxos and Rigoletto. Luisi is only the second principal guest conductor in Met history, following Valery Gergiev who held the position from 1998 to 2008.
Luisi made his Met debut in 2005 with Don Carlo. During the current season, he has conducted Elektra, Le Nozze di Figaro, Hansel and Gretel, and Tosca. In May, he will lead the revival of Lulu.
Luisi is currently chief conductor of the Vienna Symphony and artistic director of the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan. In addition to previous positions with organizations such as Dresden State Opera, Dresden Staatskapelle Orchestra, MDR Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and the Tonkünstler Orchestra, he has appeared with such orchestras and opera companies as the New York Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Vienna State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Deutsche Oper, and Berlin State Opera, among others.
