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Carter opens the 2026/27 season with his Komische Oper Berlin debut, conducting Barrie Kosky’s new production of Aribert Reimann’s Lear, followed by his debut at the Beethovenfest Bonn with the Staatsorchester Stuttgart — his first concert as the orchestra’s General Music Director. In Stuttgart, he conducts new productions of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Der Rosenkavalier, alongside revivals of La bohème, Der fliegende Holländer, and Idomeneo. He also returns to the Metropolitan Opera for the fourth time, conducting Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. Previous engagements have taken him to the Bayerische Staatsoper, Wiener Staatsoper, Opernhaus Zürich, Glyndebourne Festival, Semperoper Dresden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Oper Köln and Santa Fe Opera.
In the concert hall, highlights of the forthcoming season include a return to the Seattle Symphony and debuts with the Dresdner Philharmonie, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and the Orchestra of La Monnaie. Recent seasons have seen Carter conduct the Oslo Philharmonic, Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, MDR-Sinfonieorchester, Bruckner Orchester Linz, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Orchestre Métropolitain, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.
Carter was Principal Conductor of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra from 2016 to 2019 and Chief Conductor of Stadttheater Klagenfurt and the Kärntner Sinfonieorchester from 2018 to 2021. Most recently, he served as Chief Conductor and Co-Operndirektor of Bühnen Bern from 2021 to 2025.
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