Biography
The conductor and pianist Christoph Gedschold was already accompanying at the International Opera Studio in Zurich while he was studying piano and conducting in Leipzig and Hamburg. In 2002 he became Kapellmeister and répétiteur at the Lucerne Theater and worked at the "Lucerne Festival" e.g. for Claudio Abbado, Mariss Jansons and Pierre Boulez. In 2005 he assisted Ulf Schirmer at the Bregenz Festival and moved to the Staatstheater Nürnberg. In 2009 he was appointed first conductor at the Staatstheater Karlsruhe. There he conducted premieres of, among others, Weinberg's "Die Passagierin", Martinu's "Die griechische Passion" and repertoire works such as "Der Rosenkavalier", "Meistersinger", "Lohengrin" and "Peter Grimes". Christoph Gedschold has been Kapellmeister at the Leipzig Opera since the 2015/16 season and has conducted the premieres of "Freischütz", "Herzog Blaubarts Burg", "Rusalka", "Die verkaufte Braut", "Pagliacci" and many others.In addition, since 2015 he has been regularly invited to other major opera houses in Germany: He conducted premieres such as "Die Passagierin" by Mieczysław Weinberg at the Semperoper Dresden and at the Frankfurt Opera, in Cologne the premieres of "Rusalka" and "Die Zauberflöte". He conducted the premiere of Götterdämmerung at the Opera de Oviedo, Spain. There are also repertoire pieces such as "Simon Boccanegra", "La Traviata", "Katja Kabanova", "Manon Lescaut" and "Die tote Stadt" at the Hamburg State Opera, "Ariadne auf Naxos" in Frankfurt, "Turandot" in Cologne as well as conductings by "Der Freischütz", "Don Giovanni" and "Die Zauberflöte" at the Semper Opera in Dresden.
He participated in the major project “WAGNER 22” at the Leipzig Opera in 2022, where he conducted the performances of “Die Feen”, “Das Liebesverbot” and “Lohengrin”.
in the season 22/23 Christoph Gedschold is to become the new music director at the Oper Leipzig, where he will direct pieces like “Undine”, “Die Zauberflöte”, “Lohengrin”, “Otello”, “Salome”, Peter Grimes” and “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg”.
In addition to regular collaborations with the Gewandhaus Orchestra, Christoph Gedschold conducted a.o. the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Hamburg Philharmonic, the MDR Symphony Orchestra, the German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken and the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne. Guest performances have taken him to the Orchester symphonique de Montrèal, the Basel Symphony Orchestra and the New Japan Philharmonic, among others. The Munich Radio Orchestra presented Georg Schumann's “Prize Symphony” on CD under his direction in cooperation with BR Classic.
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Repertoire
Repertoire Opera
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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Old masters, always new!
Christoph Gedschold is a regular guest at the Semperoper Dresden. After revivals of “Elektra” and “Ariadne auf Naxos” in the last two seasons, he returns to the conductor's podium this season with "Der Freischütz" on 23./ 30.09.23 and 03.10.23, as well as with "The Magic Flute" performances scheduled for the spring 2024.In Leipzig, he starts the season with the Leipzig Opera Ball on 02.10.23, conducting the Gewandhaus Orchestra, and followed by the revival of "Tristan und Isolde "with
performances on 05.11.23, 03.12.23 and 10.02.24.
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Georg Schumann - Preis-Symphonie
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"Carmina Burana" zum MDR-Musiksommer 2019
MDR Sinfonieorchester - Rehearsal "Carmina Burana"
Press
Undine / Oper Leipzig / 30.10.2022 / nmz.de
"Dem Gewandhausorchester unter Leitung von Musikdirektor Christoph Gedschold machte der Rückgriff auf Lortzing hörbar Freude."
Undine / Oper Leipzig / 31.10.2022 / faz.net
"Christoph Gedschold am Pult des Gewandhausorchesters legt es nicht auf Schärfe und Grobheit an. Eine seidige Milde und eine gewinnende Wärme liegt über dem Orchesterklang."
Undine / Oper Leipzig / 01.11.2022 / mdr.de
"Lortzings volksliedhafter Ton ist bei Christoph Gedschold in den besten Händen, er bringt den scheinbar naiven Charakter der Trinklieder ebenso in Schwung wie die charmanten Naturschilderungen belebt."
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"