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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 Frankfurt Opera, 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.
Career highlights include: Enescu’s Oedipe and Die Zauberflöte at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; L'elisir d'amore, Eugene Onegin and Carmen for the Bayerische Staatsoper; La traviata and Capriccio for the Santa Fe Opera; Tosca for the San Francisco Opera; The Rape of Lucretia for the Glyndebourne Festival; Don Carlos and Die Zauberflöte for the Hamburg State Opera; Death in Venice for Welsh National Opera; Salome and Cimarosa’s L’Italiana in Londra for the Frankfurt Opera; Wozzeck, Pelléas et Mélisande and a new production of Die Tote Stadt in Toulouse; Hansel und Gretel for the Norwegian National Opera; Lakmé in concert with the Teatro Real Madrid; Thaïs, Lortzing’s Der Waffenschmied and Salome with the Theater an der Wien; The Rape of Lucretia and Tosca for the English National Opera. He has also conducted with the Staatstheater Hannover, and for the Royal Swedish, Gothenburg and Norwegian 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 at the Tokyo Spring Festival. He made his Salzburg Festival debut in 2024 conducting the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg.
Early success at the Salzburg Festival, where he assisted Simon Rattle conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker and Valery Gergiev conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, led to worldwide symphonic debuts and close working relationships with those conductors, along with Daniel Barenboim and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Leo Hussain studied at Cambridge University and the Royal Academy of Music.
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