Karsten Januschke
Born in Schleswig-Holstein, conductor Karsten Januschke initially studied piano and musicology in Vienna. He completed his conducting studies with Prof. Georg Mark at the Vienna Conservatory with honours. During his studies, he already worked at the Vienna State Opera as a solo repetiteur and conductor of children's operas as well as at the Bayreuth Festival.
From 2008, Karsten Januschke was solo repetiteur and later conductor at the Frankfurt Opera. There he was able to develop an extensive and wide-ranging repertoire, including Don Carlo, La traviata, Hansel and Gretel and Bluebeard's Castle, with Mozart's works soon becoming a particular focus. Here he made a name for himself as a Mozart interpreter with his conducting of the Da Ponte operas in particular.
More recently, he has made his debut at the National Theatre Prague and the New National Theatre Tokyo (Don Giovanni), the Bavarian State Opera (Der Diktator/Der zerbrochene Krug), the Semperoper Dresden (Die Zauberflöte), the Stuttgart State Opera, the Volksoper Vienna and the Staatstheater Darmstadt. He has been re-invited to the Frankfurt Opera (new productions of Lost Highway by Olga Neuwirth and Handel's Tamerlano), to Bregenz (Fidelio) and to the St. Margarethen Quarry Opera (Die Zauberflöte).
Karsten Januschke makes his first guest appearance at the Komische Oper Berlin as musical director for Die Zauberflöte.
From 2008, Karsten Januschke was solo repetiteur and later conductor at the Frankfurt Opera. There he was able to develop an extensive and wide-ranging repertoire, including Don Carlo, La traviata, Hansel and Gretel and Bluebeard's Castle, with Mozart's works soon becoming a particular focus. Here he made a name for himself as a Mozart interpreter with his conducting of the Da Ponte operas in particular.
More recently, he has made his debut at the National Theatre Prague and the New National Theatre Tokyo (Don Giovanni), the Bavarian State Opera (Der Diktator/Der zerbrochene Krug), the Semperoper Dresden (Die Zauberflöte), the Stuttgart State Opera, the Volksoper Vienna and the Staatstheater Darmstadt. He has been re-invited to the Frankfurt Opera (new productions of Lost Highway by Olga Neuwirth and Handel's Tamerlano), to Bregenz (Fidelio) and to the St. Margarethen Quarry Opera (Die Zauberflöte).
Karsten Januschke makes his first guest appearance at the Komische Oper Berlin as musical director for Die Zauberflöte.