# Christoph Gedschold — Conductor / Dirigent

> Official website of German conductor Christoph Gedschold. Available in German and English.

Christoph Gedschold is a German conductor specializing in the great Romantic tradition — Wagner, Strauss, Bruckner, and Mahler. Former Chief Conductor of the Copenhagen Philharmonic (until 2025) and Music Director of Oper Leipzig (2022–24).

## Biography

Christoph Gedschold studied piano and conducting in Leipzig and Hamburg. While still a student, he worked as a repetiteur at the International Opera Studio in Zurich. In 2002, he became Kapellmeister at Theater Luzern and worked at the Lucerne Festival with Claudio Abbado, Mariss Jansons, and Pierre Boulez. In 2005, he assisted Ulf Schirmer at the Bregenz Festival.

As Music Director of Oper Leipzig (2022–24), he presented works including Der Rosenkavalier, Elektra, Salome, Tristan und Isolde, Lohengrin, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Peter Grimes, and Otello with the Gewandhausorchester.

He has a particular affinity for the Slavic repertoire, leading new productions of Die Passagierin (Weinberg) at the Semperoper Dresden and Oper Frankfurt, Rusalka in Cologne, Eugene Onegin in Zurich, Káťa Kabanová in Hamburg, and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 11 with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.

## Key Facts

- Positions: Chief Conductor Copenhagen Phil (until 2025), Music Director Oper Leipzig (2022–24)
- Education: Piano & Conducting, Leipzig and Hamburg
- Focus: Strauss, Wagner, Slavic Repertoire, Bruckner/Mahler Cycles
- Opera repertoire: ~70 operas by 35 composers
- Orchestras: 40+ internationally

## Opera Houses & Orchestras

Oper Leipzig, Semperoper Dresden, Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, Oper Frankfurt, Oper Köln, Staatstheater Nürnberg, Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Opernhaus Zürich, Göteborg Opera, Oviedo (Spain), Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dresden, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Copenhagen Philharmonic, Odense Symfoniorkester, Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie Chemnitz, Nationaltheaterorchester Mannheim.

## Current Engagements (2026)

- Parsifal (Wagner) — Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, March 15 & April 3, 2026
- Madama Butterfly (Puccini) — Oper Leipzig, March 20, 2026
- Symphony No. 3 (Mahler) — Odense Symfoniorkester, May 22, 2026
- Season 2026/27: Göteborg Opera, Oper Leipzig

## Repertoire Highlights

- Opera: Wagner (Parsifal, Tristan, Lohengrin, Meistersinger, Götterdämmerung, Fliegender Holländer), Strauss (Rosenkavalier, Elektra, Salome, Ariadne auf Naxos), Puccini (Madama Butterfly, Bohème, Tosca, Turandot), Verdi (Otello, Aida), Dvořák (Rusalka), Weinberg (Die Passagierin), Tchaikovsky (Eugene Onegin), Janáček (Káťa Kabanová), Britten (Peter Grimes)
- Symphonic: Mahler (Symphonies 1–9, incl. cycle), Bruckner, Brahms, Beethoven, Strauss (tone poems, Bourgeois gentilhomme), Shostakovich (Symphony No. 11), Haydn, Schumann

## Management

Stefan Schmerbeck Artists Management
Email: stefan@schmerbeck.de
Phone: +49 172 819 07 36
Website: www.stefanschmerbeck.de

## Links

- Website (DE): https://christophgedschold.de/de/
- Website (EN): https://christophgedschold.de/en/
- Wikipedia (DE): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Gedschold
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christophgedschold/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1JL1yio2pU
- Operabase: https://www.operabase.com/artists/christoph-gedschold-23687/en
- Bachtrack: https://www.bachtrack.com/performer/christoph-gedschold

## Pages (German / English)

- /de/biografie — /en/biography — Full biography
- /de/repertoire — /en/repertoire — Complete opera and concert repertoire
- /de/fotos — /en/photos — Press photos (high resolution, credit: Nikolaj Lund)
- /de/presse — /en/press — Press reviews (FAZ, Süddeutsche Zeitung, NZZ, and others)
- /de/#termine — /en/#schedule — Current schedule and events
- /de/#kontakt — /en/#contact — Contact form