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Leo Hussain

Conductor
Principal Guest Conductor, Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra

  • 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.

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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.

    2025/26 season / 416 words. Not to be altered without permission.

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"Leo Hussain was a revelation in the pit, helming a delicate, fluid, mesmerizing, echt account of a graceful score that is more succulent caviar than substantial Hauptspeise. Maestro Hussain led a propulsive, informed, precise reading that fell gratefully on the ear."

Opera Today

“… ENO’s orchestra is on fine form for Hussain, whose conducting is all grand passion and sweeping intensity, and utterly gripping.”

Guardian

"Leo Hussain has left a business card at the Wiener Konzerthaus, on which the word 'talent' shimmers in golden letters."

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Intermusica represents Leo Hussain worldwide

Julia Maynard
Director / Vocal & Opera
+44 20 7608 9902
jmaynard@intermusica.com

Natasha Worsley
Associate Director, Vocal & Opera
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Jonathan Turnbull
Associate Artist Manager, Vocal & Opera
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All artists

Contralto

Avery Amereau

Actor / Narrator

Amira Casar

Chansonnier

HK Gruber

Harpsichord

Richard Egarr

Piano accompanist

Roger Vignoles