Daniel Carter, General Music Director of Landestheater Coburg and Music Director of Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar, has served as a Conductor at the Deutsche Oper Berlin since August 2019.
In 2023, he made his debut at the Vienna State Opera with Die Zauberflöte and returned to the
Deutsche Oper Berlin with a new production of John Adams’ Nixon in China . He was also invited to Malmö Opera for a new production of Turandot. Highlights of the last season in Berlin include Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Carmen, and Die Fledermaus , as well as Siegfried at Oper Leipzig, Pelléas et Mélisande at Bühnen Bern, and his debut at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro.
Recent debuts include Oper Köln (La bohème), with the Münchener Kammerorchester, at
Konzerttheater Bern (the Swiss premiere of Kurt Weill’s Love Life and Pelléas et Mélisande), and the Akademie des Symphonieorchesters des Bayerischen Rundfunks.
From 2013 to 2015, he was engaged at the Hamburg Staatsoper, first as a repetiteur, then as
conductor and musical assistant to Simone Young. From 2015 to 2019, he was principal conductor at Theater Freiburg, where he conducted a wide opera repertoire, including Così fan tutte, Carmen, La bohème, Pelléas et Mélisande, Die Sache Makropulos, Katja Kabanowa, Eugene Onegin, Il Trovatore, L’Elisir d’Amore, Die Fledermaus, Orphée (Gluck/Berlioz), Mefistofele, I gioielli della Madonna (Wolf-Ferrari), Cendrillon (Massenet), Angels in America (Eötvös), Zaide/Adama (Mozart/Czernowin), as well as numerous world premieres and symphony concerts.
Daniel Carter studied composition and piano at the University of Melbourne, Australia. During his studies, he worked as developing artist conductor and musical assistant to the music
director at Victorian Opera. In 2012, he was awarded the Brian Stacey Award for Emerging Australian Conductors. This was followed by multiple engagements with Victorian Opera (including the Australian premiere of Elliott Carter’s What Next?), Opera Australia, The Australian Ballet, Sydney Theatre Company, the Sydney and Melbourne Festivals, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, and the Australian Youth Orchestra.
This season, he will make his debut at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm with a new production of Madama Butterfly.
