Minkowski’s 2026/27 season includes returns to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden for Le Nozze di Figaro, Deutsche Oper Berlin for staged performances of the St. Matthew Passion and two productions at Théâtre des Champs Elysées with Les Musiciens du Louvre, including Les pêcheurs de perles and Hippolyte et Aricie. He also returns to the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony for two programs and to Chicago’s Music of the Baroque for Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, and guest conducts orchestras throughout Europe. With Boston Baroque, Minkowski rings in Beethoven Year 2027 with an all-Beethoven New Year’s celebration (including all three Leonore Overtures) and returns in February 2027 with works by Bach and Pergolesi.
Minkowski’s distinguished career includes productions at all of Europe’s top opera houses and festivals, including Festival Aix-en-Provence, Drottingholm Opera Festival, Salzburger Festspiele, Mozartwoche Salzburg, Opéra national de Paris, Opéra Comique Paris, Opéra national de Bordeaux, Staatsoper Berlin, Zurich Opera, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, ViennaStaatsoper and Theater an der Wien, Royal Ballet and Opera London, La Fenice in Venice, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Les Arts Valencia, and Liceu de Barcelona. He has collaborated with stage directors such as Sir Richard Eyre, Laurent Pelly, Olivier Py, Dmitri Tcherniakov, and Krzysztof Warlikowski
On the symphonic stage, Minkowski has collaborated with many of the world’s greatestorchestras including the Vienna, Berlin, and Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, BBC Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and many others.
Minkowski is the Artistic Director of the Ré Majeure Festival on France’s Île de Ré. Previous positions include General Manager of Opéra national de Bordeaux from 2016 to 2021, Artistic Director of the Mozartwoche Salzburg from 2013 to 2017, and principal guest conductor for the Kanazawa Ensemble Orchestra in Japan. In 2018, Marc Minkowski was awarded the Order of the French Legion of Honour.
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