Roland Kluttig

Roland Kluttig has been the principal conductor of the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra and Graz Opera since the 2020/21 season, having previously held the post of general music director in Coburg.

During this season in Graz, he will present new productions, including Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer and Georg Friedrich Haas’s opera Morgen und Abend, as well as a large number of concerts with the Graz Philharmonic at the Graz Musikverein. He will also perform as guest conductor with the Tapiola Sinfonietta in Finland, and with the State Orchestras of Lower Saxony and Brandenburg and the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra in Germany.

Over the past few years, he has already scored great successes at Graz Opera with Dukas’s Ariane et Barbe-Bleu and Szymanowski’s Król Roger. A central part of his conducting activities is also his long-term collaboration with Staatsoper Stuttgart, where he directed the spectacular new production of Strauss’s Salome in 2015 and a new production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro in 2019. In the past years he has also conducted Weber’s Euryanthe at the Frankfurt Opera, Korngold’s Die tote Stadt at Staatsoper Hamburg, Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges at the Opera Leipzig and Wozzek and Peter Grimes at the Norrlandsoperan in Sweden. He has also appeared at the Opéra national du Rhin, the Opéra Nice and the Theater Bern. During his time in Coburg, Kluttig’s Wagner productions of Lohengrin, Parsifal and Das Rheingold attracted great and widespread attention.

Roland Kluttig is a regular guest conductor with orchestras such as the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Radio Orchestras in Munich, Stuttgart, Frankfurt and Leipzig, the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, the Philharmonia Orchestra in London and the Seoul Philharmonic, performing a repertoire stretching from Rameau to Lachenmann. His discography includes the first live recording of Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron with Staatsoper Stuttgart, and works by Erwin Schulhoff with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and by Silvestre Revueltas with the Ensemble KNM Berlin.

Kluttig studied at the Dresden College of Music and held scholarships from the Conductors’ Forum of the German Music Council, the Akademie Schloss Solitude and the Herbert von Karajan Foundation. His work with artists such as Peter Eötvös and John Eliot Gardiner has had a seminal influence on him. He began his career as the musical director of the Ensemble KNM Berlin. During this time, he was a guest at almost all the important festivals in Europe not only with this ensemble, but also with Klangforum Wien, the London Sinfonietta, Asko|Schönberg Amsterdam and the Collegium Novum Zürich.