Source: intermusica.com
British conductor Leo Hussain has established himself as a leading interpreter in a broad range of repertoire, receiving critical acclaim for his interpretations of Mozart, the second Viennese school and great 20th century masterpieces. Formerly Music Director of the Opéra de Rouen and Salzburg Landestheater, he now conducts for many of the world’s top orchestras and opera houses and is Principal Guest Conductor of the George Enescu Philharmonic.
During the 2025/26 season, Hussain’s engagements include Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Handel’s Saul in his return to the Semperoper Dresden, Mitridate, Re di Ponto and Weinberg’s The Passenger for the Oper Frankfurt, La traviata with the New National Theatre Tokyo and Carmen with the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse. He also conducts concert performances with the Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier, Teatro Real Madrid and George Enescu Philharmonic. Last season, he conducted Don Carlo for the Staatsoper Hamburg, Salome in Frankfurt, Death in Venice with the Welsh National Opera und Pelléas et Mélisande in Toulouse.
Previous opera highlights have included Die Zauberflöte at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Eugene Onegin for the Bayerische Staatsoper, Capriccio for the Santa Fe Opera, Tosca for the San Francisco Opera and The Rape of Lucretia for the Glyndebourne Festival. He has also appeared with the Theater an der Wien, Staatstheater Hannover, and the English, Gothenburg, Norwegian and Royal Swedish national operas.
Hussain has conducted concerts with the Hamburg and Vienna symphony orchestras, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra at Mozartfest Würzburg, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Prague Philharmonia, the Gulbenkian and Royal Danish orchestras, the West Australian and Tasmanian symphony orchestras, Auckland Philharmonia, NHK Symphony Orchestra and Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. He made his Salzburg Festival debut in 2024 conducting the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg.
Leo Hussain studied at Cambridge University and the Royal Academy of Music.
