First Conductor and Deputy Principal Conductor

Michael Brandstätter

Michael Brandstätter studied conducting in his native city Graz. His teachers include Wolfgang Bozic, Arturo Tamayo, Beat Furrer, Georg Friedrich Haas and Bernhard Lang. In 1997 he went to St Petersburg to study with Ilya Musin and Alexander Polishchuk. His first engagement was at the Oper Graz, where he was able to develop a broad repertory of operas, operettas and musicals as solo-répétiteur and Kapellmeister. Since 2007 he was recruited as deputy principal conductor at Klagenfurt City Municipal Theatre where he conducted »Ariadne auf Naxos«, »Lʼincoronazione di Poppea«, »Tosca«, »Boris Godunow« as well as the premiere of the revised version of Herbert Williʼs opera »Schlafes Bruder«.

Since the 2012/2013 season he has held the position of deputy principal conductor at Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz and conducted, among others, »Im weißen Rössl«, »Dornröschen«, »Martha«, »Anything Goes«, »Berlin 1920 – Eine Burleske«, »Der Bettelstudent«, »Die Entführung aus dem Serail«, »Wiener Blut«, »Dr. Faust jr.«, »Aida«, »Così fan tutte«, »La Cenerentola«, »Viktoria und ihr Husar«, »Die Faschingsfee«, »On the Town«, »La Strada«, »Der Wildschütz«, »Jonny spielt auf«, »Troja«, »Peer Gynt«, »Friederike«, »Der Vogelhändler«, »Waldmeister« as well as the world premieres of Wilfried Hillerʼs »Der Flaschengeist« and »Momo«, Han Ottenʼs »Peter Pan«, Johanna Dodererʼs »Liliom« and »Schuberts Reise nach Atzenbrugg«.

Guest conducting engagements have taken him to venues including the Vienna Volksoper.