Biography
Christoph Gedschold studied Piano and Conducting in Leipzig and Hamburg with Christof Prick.Following the engagements at Theater Lucerne and Staatstheater Nuremberg, he became the Kapellmeister at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, where he led i.a. Martinu’s The Greek Passion, Euryanthe, La Gioconda, the German first performance of Weinberg’s Die Passsagierin, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Der fliegende Holländer, Lohengrin, Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos, Otello, Boris Godunov, and Peter Grimes.
In 2015, he has made his successful debut in North America conducting Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11 with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, followed by re-invitations.
In 2016, he led Die Passagierin on the occasion of the Wiener Festwochen, as well as Ariadne auf Naxos.
Christoph Gedschold is a regular guest at the Semperoper Dresden and the Staatsoper Hamburg. In Dresden he already has conducted Der Freischütz, Die Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, as well as the premiere of Die Passagierin, and productions in Hamburg include, among others, La Traviata, Simon Boccanegra, Manon Lescaut, La Bohème, Katja Kabanowa, and Eugene Onegin.
He has been at the conductor’s stand of renowned orchestras, such as the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dresden, Hamburg Philharmonics, Gürzenich-Orchestra Cologne, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Museumsorchester Frankfurt, Nationalorchester Mannheim, Bayerische Staatsphilharmonie Nuremberg, as well as the Basel Symphony Orchestra and the New Japan Philharmonic Tokyo.
Since the season 2015/16, Christoph Gedschold is the Kapellmeister at the Oper Leipzig conducting a broad repertoire including i.a. Die Zauberflöte, Der Freischütz, Tannhäuser, Hansel and Gretel, Rigoletto, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Pagliacci, Tosca, La Bohème and Madama Butterfly, as well as The Bartered Bride, Rusalka, Bluebeard’s Castle and West Side Story.
Upcoming engagements include, among others, Der fliegende Holländer, Rusalka, La Bohème, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Rigoletto and La Traviata at Oper Leipzig, his debut in Spain leading the new production of Götterdämmerung at Opera de Oviedo, Die tote Stadt and Pique Dame at Staatsoper Hamburg, Der Freischütz at Semperoper Dresden, as well as Turandot at Opera Cologne.
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Repertoire
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Bartók | Bluebeard's Castle |
Beethoven | Fidelio |
Berlioz | Les Troyens |
Bernstein | West Side Story |
Bizet | Carmen |
Blacher | Die Nachtschwalbe |
Britten | The Rape of Lucretia |
Peter Grimes | |
Donizetti | L'elisir d'Amore |
Dom Sebastien | |
Dvorak | Rusalka |
Gluck | Armida |
Iphigénie en Tauride | |
Gounod | Faust |
Humperdinck | Hansel and Gretel |
Janácek | Katja Kabanova |
Knussen | Wo die wilden Kerle wohnen |
Korngold | Die tote Stadt |
Lehar | Die lustige Witwe |
Leoncavallo | I Pagliacci |
Martinu | The Greek Passion |
Menotti | Das Medium |
Mozart | Così fan tutte |
Die Entführung aus dem Serail | |
Die Zauberflöte | |
Don Giovanni | |
La Clemenza di Tito | |
Lucio Silla | |
Le nozze di Figaro | |
Mussorgsky | Boris Godunov (Original Version) |
Neuwirth | Bählamms Fest |
Offenbach | Les Contes d'Hoffmann |
Ponchielli | La Gioconda |
Puccini | La Bohème |
Tosca | |
Madama Butterfly | |
Manon Lescaut | |
Ravel | L'enfant et les Sortilèges |
Rossini | Il barbiere di Siviglia |
Sciarrino | Macbet |
Schwemmer | Robin Hood |
Strauss | Ariadne auf Naxos |
Der Rosenkavalier | |
Stravinsky | Le Rossignol |
Tchaikovsky | Eugene Onegin |
Verdi | Aida |
Don Carlos | |
Un ballo in maschera | |
Rigoletto | |
I Masnadieri | |
Otello | |
La Traviata | |
Simon Boccanegra | |
Wagner | Lohengrin |
Der fliegende Holländer | |
Tannhäuser | |
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg | |
Weber | Euryanthe |
Der Freischütz | |
Weinberg | Die Passagierin |
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Christoph Gedschold's broad repertoire of symphonic and chamber music ranges from the baroque to the contemporary. Please follow the link below to find the complete repertoire:www.christophgedschold.com/...
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Waves of Sound along the River Elbe: "Tote Stadt" and "Freischütz" in Hamburg and Dresden
In December and January, Christoph Gedschold will conduct two great operas at two major houses. First he will take on Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s sonically powerful Die Tote Stadt at Hamburg’s State Opera including, among others, Klaus Florian Vogt as Paul: December 10 and 15Afterwards he will travel along the Elbe river to Dresden, performing Der Freischütz at the famous Semperoper on December 11 and January 3 and 5.
Furthermore, numerous productions await Christoph Gedschold at Opera Leipzig, including Rusalka (December 13; February 9), La Bohème (staged by Peter Konwitschny) on December 20/26 and February 2, as well as Tosca on the 1st of February.
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Georg Schumann - Preis-Symphonie
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"Carmina Burana" zum MDR-Musiksommer 2019
MDR Sinfonieorchester - Rehearsal "Carmina Burana"
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Rusalka / Oper Köln / 13.03.19 / omm.de
"gerät unter dem Dirigat von Christoph Gedschold mit dem ganz ausgezeichneten Gürzenich-Orchester zum großen spätromantischen Musikdrama"
Rusalka / Oper Köln / 13.03.19 / deropernfreund.de
"Der Farbenreichtum, die sensible Ausdruckslenkung der Musik kommt unter Christoph Gedschold bestens zur Geltung"
Bluebeard's Castle and I Pagliacci / Oper Leipzig / 08.04.18 / kultur-extra.de
"Unter Christoph Gedschold [kommen] die berauschenden und verstörenden Klänge großartig zur Entfaltung"
Die Passagierin / Semperoper Dresden / 06.07.17 / nmz.de
"So genau liest er die Partituren, dass er bei der Realisierung immer dem individuellen Klang der jeweiligen Orchester trauen und diesen nutzen kann."
Die Passagierin / Theater an der Wien / 23.05.16 / bachtrack.com
"hier wird auf hohem Niveau und mit viel Gespür für's Detail musiziert"