Engel becomes Conductor in Residence at the Deutsche Oper Berlin
The Deutsche Oper appoints a team of conductors instead of a general director. Part of this team is Titus Engel, who was awarded a Swiss Music Prize this year.
As Principal Guest Conductors, the young conductors Maxime Pascal and Michele Spotti will set the tone with the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. As Conductor in Residence, Titus Engel will "complete the musical management team in a variety of ways", according to the opera's press release. Engel will perform a world premiere and a symphonic concert as well as "play a key role in launching innovative projects and collaborations in the Tischlerei (one of the opera's spaces for new music theater) and beyond in the urban Berlin context"
Titus Engel was born in Zurich in 1975 and has lived in Berlin since 1995. He is the initiator of the Akademie Musiktheater Heute and editor of several books on contemporary opera. This year, he was awarded a Swiss Music Prize for his artistic work. In 2020, he was named "Conductor of the Year" by Opernwelt magazine.
The opera house in Berlin-Charlottenburg, which was opened in 1912 and destroyed during the war, was reopened as the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1961. Since then, it has been Berlin's largest and Germany's second largest music theater - and one of the most modern in Europe.
