Maximilian Otto
Conductor
Composer
Pianist
THE 2024/2025 SEASON | Chemnitz Opera House
Premiere: DAS TAGEBUCH DER ANNE FRANK | Frid
DIE DREI WÜNSCHE | Martinů
CARMEN | Bizet
HÄNSEL UND GRETEL | Humperdinck
RIGOLETTO | Verdi
LA BOHÈME | Puccini
BIOGRAPHY
Maximilian Otto, born in Chemnitz in 1998, has been second Kapellmeister at the Theater Chemnitz since the 2023/24 season and has already conducted revivals of Fledermaus, Offenbachs‘ Orpheus in der Unterwelt, My fair Lady and Carabet as well as performances by Martinů's Die Drei Wünsche.
He is a prizewinner of the 11th MDR conducting competition, in which he conducted his own world premiere with the MDR Symphony Orchestra in the prizewinners' concert. He has also been a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation since 2019. He attended master classes with Jean-Philippe Wurtz, Omer-Meir Wellber, Johannes Pell, Ole Kristian Ruud and Christian Thielemann, who invited him to a sponsorship rehearsal designed as a master class at the Salzburg Festival in 2022, in which he conducted the Staatskapelle Dresden in the big festival hall. He has also worked with orchestras such as the Sinfonietta Dresden, the Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau, the Jena Philharmonic, the Elbland Philharmonie Sachsen, the Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic, the Erzgebirgische Philharmonie Aue, the Sinfonia Rotterdam, the Hradec Králové Philharmonic and the Kodály Filharmónia Debrecen. He has already worked as a musical assistant and/or répétiteur for certain productions at the German National Theatre Weimar (Strauss' Ariadne), at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin (children's opera production of Wagner's Lohengrin), at the Gaechinger Cantorey (Haydn's Creation) and at the Landesbühnen Sachsen (Marschner's Vampyr).
PRESS
The children's choir and of course the Robert Schumann Philharmonic with the already mentioned young Maximilian Otto must also be praised. Under his direction, the technically and musically highly accomplished orchestra steers flawlessly through this demanding, opulent score, which is always full of new surprises. There are beguiling timbres and bursts of sound.
Michael Oehme about the premiere of G. Charpentier's “Louise” at the Chemnitz Opera House in February 2025
CALENDAR
LOUISE
4:00 p.m. | Chemnitz Opera House
CARMEN
6:00 p.m. | Chemnitz Opera House
LA BOHÈME
7:30 p.m. | Chemnitz Opera House