Biography

Born in Madrid, Guillermo García Calvo began his musical education at the age of seven. He concluded his musical studies at the University of Music in Vienna with a thesis on Parsifal and a performance of the Overture from Tannhäuser in the Großer Saal at the Musikverein Vienna.
He continued his studies as assistant of Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra, as well as assistant of Christian Thielemann for the production Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Bayreuther Festspiele. In 2003 he made his debut with a performance of Hansel and Gretel at the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn.

He has always maintained a strong relation with the Vienna State Opera ever since he started working there in 2004. He has conducted more than 200 performances at this renowned house including Die Zauberflöte, Macbeth, La traviata, Il barbiere di Siviglia, L’elisir d’amore, and Lucia di Lammermoor.
Furthermore, he is a welcome guest at major houses and festivals inside and outside of Europe, including the Opéra national de Paris (Don Giovanni), Deutsche Oper Berlin (u.a. Les pêcheurs de perles, Carmen, and Rigoletto), Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona (La Gioconda), Opéra de Oviedo (Ring cycle, and Tristan und Isolde), Opéra de Nice (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Teatro Principal de Palma (Salome), Teatro Verdi di Trieste (La sonnambula), and the New National Theatre in Tokio (L’elisir d’amore). Furthermore, he conducted Sorozábal‘s Katiuska in Madrid, Turandot in Bukarest, El amor brujo in Florence, Stiffelio at the Verdi-Festival in Parma, Fascination Wagner on the occasion of the Internationale Maifestspiele at Staatstheater Wiesbaden, as well as a festive gala with Juan Diego Flórez at Müpa Bukarest.
In May 2016, he conducted the first recording of Ramón Carnicer’s Elena e Malvina together with the National Orchestra of Spain.

In addition to his operatic work, Guillermo García Calvo has developed an extensive concert repertoire and he makes regular appearances with renowned orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, Hamburger Symphoniker, Essener Philharmoniker, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico.

As from the 2017/18 season he started his tenure as musical director (Generalmusikdirektor) of the Theater Chemnitz and the Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie, where he already conducted i.a. Wagner’s Ring cycle, Parsifal, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Hansel and Gretel, Die Fledermaus, Der Rosenkavalier, Un ballo in maschera, as well as numerous concerts.
Past engagements at the Theater Chemnitz include, among others, are the new productions Mefistofele (Boito), Carmen, and Lohengrin, as well as Wagner’s Ring cycle and Fidelio. In addition, he conducted Il barbiere di Siviglia and Nabucco at Vienna’s State Opera, and Sorozábal’s Zarzuela at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia.

His current projects include conducting Lohengrin at the Chemnitz Opera, Bretón’s Farinelli at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, Coppèlia at the Paris Opera, Nabucco at the Vienna State Opera and Carmen at the Semperoper Dresden.

In October 2013 Guillermo García Calvo was awarded the Spanish music prize „Codalario“ as Best Artist 2013. Chapí's Curro Vargas, staged by Graham Vick and conducted by Maestro García Calvo at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, was awarded the renowned „Premio Campoamor“ in November 2014. In May 2017, Guillermo García Calvo received the annual European award “Leonardo da Vinci” supported by ten European Rotary clubs.

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