Dominic Limburg
Swiss conductor Dominic Limburg was engaged as Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 2021 to 2024. During his time there, he conducted performances of La Traviata, Rigoletto, Verdi’s Requiem, La Bohème, The Magic Flute, Hansel and Gretel (also on tour at the Royal Opera House Muscat), Carmen, Les Vêpres siciliennes, The Flying Dutchman, and Fidelio. As a guest conductor, he made his debut at the Hanover State Opera with Hansel and Gretel and Così fan tutte, conducted new productions of the ballet evenings Per aspera ad astra and Maria Stuart, and led performances of Woyzeck at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe as well as a new staging of Alcina at the Wuppertaler Bühnen.
Current and upcoming engagements include new productions of Eugene Onegin with Northern Irish Opera, La Bohème at Theater Chemnitz, Il viaggio a Reims at the Zurich Opera House, The Flying Dutchman at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, and La Traviata and I vespri siciliani at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
From 2016 to 2021, he worked at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, first as Second Kapellmeister and from 2020 as First Kapellmeister. There, he conducted a wide-ranging repertoire from baroque to contemporary across all disciplines, including new productions of Swan Lake, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Die lustigen Nibelungen, as well as performances of The Tales of Hoffmann, Anna Bolena, The Cunning Little Vixen, La clemenza di Tito, and the commissioned work Wahnfried by A. Dorman, along with numerous other opera, ballet, and youth concerts.
As assistant to Sir Donald Runnicles, Limburg has been deeply involved in the Wagner tradition at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, contributing to major premieres including Götterdämmerung (directed by Stefan Herheim), Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Jossi Wieler), and Fidelio (David Herrmann), as well as revivals of Lohengrin, Tristan and Isolde, and The Flying Dutchman.
From 2015 to 2021, he was a scholarship holder in the German Music Council’s "Forum Dirigieren" and was listed in their Maestros of Tomorrow programme. Guest conducting engagements have taken him to the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, the Neubrandenburg Philharmonic, the Palatinate Chamber Orchestra Mannheim, the Kammerphilharmonie Graubünden, and the Meiningen State Theatre. He is now working with the Staatskapelle Berlin for the first time, conducting Winterreise in a choreography by Christian Spuck.