Since receiving the German Conductors’ Award, Markus Poschner has been a guest conductor at the most prestigious orchestras and opera houses, including the Deutsche Symphonieorchester Berlin, Staatskapelle Berlin, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, SWR Symphony Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony, Vienna Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, NHK Tokyo, as well as at the Staatsoper Berlin, Vienna, Munich, Hamburg, and at the Opernhaus Zürich. In 2022, he opened the Bayreuth Festival with a new production of "Tristan und Isolde" and conducted it again in 2023. In 2026/27, the Munich-born conductor, who is also a passionate jazz pianist, will become the new Chief Conductor of the historic ORF Radio-Symphony Orchestra Vienna. Since 2025/26, he has been Chief Conductor of the Sinfonieorchester Basel and will additionally assume the position of Music Director at the Utah Symphony Orchestra starting in 2027/28. From 2015 to 2025, he was Chief Conductor of the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, with which he won the International Classical Music Award in 2018 for the complete recording of Brahms’ symphonies and again in 2025 for his Hindemith and Schnittke recordings. His recording of Offenbach’s "Maître Péronilla" with the Orchestre National de France received the 2021 Annual Award from the German Record Critics. For the complete recording of all Bruckner symphonies with the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, of which Poschner has been Chief Conductor since 2017, and the ORF Radio-Symphony Orchestra Vienna, he received the 2024 Special Achievement Award from the International Classical Music Awards jury. In 2020, Poschner and the Bruckner Orchestra Linz were awarded the Austrian Music Prize.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Opera in two acts
Libretto by Joseph Ferdinand Sonnleithner and
Georg Friedrich Treitschke
From 26. April 2015 until 10. May 2015
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Duration :
2 H. Without intermission. -
Language:
In German with German and English surtitles. -
More information:
Introduction 45 min before the performance.








