Thomas Guggeis has established himself as one of the most compelling conductors of his generation. Equally at home in the opera house and the concert hall, he has developed a strong international profile with engagements across Europe and beyond. Since the 2023/24 season, Guggeis has served as Generalmusikdirektor of Oper Frankfurt and Artistic Director of the Frankfurter Museumsorchester. In the 2026/27 season, he conducts Le Roi Arthus, Hänsel und Gretel, Un ballo in maschera, Die Walküre, Das Rheingold, and Die griechische Passion at Oper Frankfurt.

Elsewhere in the 2026/27 season, Guggeis makes his concert debuts with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the NDR Elbphilharmonieorchester. Further concert appearances include returns to the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre national de France, and Filarmonica della Scala. In opera, he returns to the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino for Wozzeck and to Teatro alla Scala for Don Giovanni before making his Bayreuth Festival debut with Tannhäuser in summer 2027.

Over the past seasons in Frankfurt, Guggeis has conducted critically acclaimed new productions of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Lulu, Macbeth, Parsifal, Der Rosenkavalier, Le Grand Macabre, Don Carlos, Le nozze di Figaro, Tannhäuser, Elektra, Così fan tutte, Boris Godunov, and Turandot, as well as revivals of Peter Grimes and Tristan und Isolde. His recent work there has also included a series of Museumskonzerte featuring works by Richard Strauss, Shostakovich, Haydn, Beethoven, and Mahler.

His additional opera credits include Der fliegende Holländer at the Metropolitan Opera, Die Entführung aus dem Serail at Teatro alla Scala, Salome at the Bayerische Staatsoper, and numerous productions at the Wiener Staatsoper (Salome, La traviata, Ariadne auf Naxos, Falstaff, Die tote Stadt), the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Der Ring des Nibelungen, Káťa Kabanová, Don Giovanni, Elektra, Falstaff, Daphne, Salome, Samson et Dalila, La traviata, Der fliegende Holländer, Die Zauberflöte, Lohengrin, Ariadne auf Naxos, Hänsel und Gretel, Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Die Entführung aus dem Serail), and the Theater an der Wien (Peter Grimes, Oberon).

In concert, he has led the Wiener Philharmoniker at the Mozartwoche in Salzburg, Berliner Philharmoniker, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Staatskapelle Dresden, Staatskapelle Berlin, Münchner Philharmoniker, Wiener Symphoniker, Orchestre de Paris, Cleveland Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg, Orchestre national de France, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestre national de Lyon, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, San Diego Symphony, SWR Symphonieorchester Stuttgart, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Dresdner Philharmonie, Copenhagen Philharmonic, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Orchestra della Toscana, Berner Symphonieorchester, Essener Philharmoniker, Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra, Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, and Boulez Ensemble Berlin, among others. His recent concert projects have also included Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium at the Isarphilharmonie München.

Earlier in his career, Guggeis was Staatskapellmeister at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and First Kapellmeister at the Staatsoper Stuttgart. He studied conducting in Munich and Milan.