Andris Nelsons is Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. These two positions – combined with his leadership of a pioneering alliance between the two institutions – have firmly established the Grammy Award-winning conductor as one of the most sought-after artists today.

Soprano | Sarah Wegener

The British-German soprano, Sarah Wegener, originally studied double-bass in Stuttgart. She later switched to singing studies at the Conservatory with Professor Bernhard Jaeger-Böhm in Stuttgart. After passing with distinction in 2006, she continued her studies in the class of Lied interpretation, working with Cornelis Witthoefft, and took part in master-classes with Dame Gwyneth Jones and Renée Morloc. In 2007 she won the 1st prize of the "International Max-Reger-Competition for Lied" in Weiden.

Tenor | Klaus Florian Vogt

Klaus Florian Vogt is one of the finest Wagner tenors of our time. His repertoire covers mostly dramatic roles such as Lohengrin, Parsifal, Tannhäuser, Stolzing, Siegmund and Siegfried but also Florestan („Fidelio“), Paul („Die tote Stadt“) and Hoffmann („Les Contes d’Hoffmann“). It extends furthermore to lyric-dramatic roles such as Erik („Der fliegende Holländer“), Andrej („Chowanschtschina“), Prinz („Rusalka“), Bacchus („Ariadne auf Naxos“) and Faust („La Damnation de Faust“).

Klaus Florian Vogt is a much sought after guest at all major opera houses and at the Bayreuth and Salzburg Festivals. His career led him amongst others to Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Paris, London, Barcelona, Vienna, Madrid, Milan, Toulouse, Helsinki, New York und Tokyo. 2005 saw his debut in Japan as Hoffmann („Les Contes d’Hoffmann“), in 2006 he debuted as Lohengrin at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and in 2007 he sang for the first time at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan (Lohengrin), where he later returned as Florestan („Fidelio“). He enjoyed great success as Lohengrin in a new production at the Vienna State Opera and could also be seen in the same production at the Zurich Opera House. In 2015 he sang an outstanding Paul in a new production of „Die tote Stadt“ at Hamburg State Opera.

Bass | Vitalij Kowaljow

italij Kowaljow won the 1999 Plácido Domingo Operalia Competition. His career took on an international dimension in 2003 after he sang the role of Procida in the French version of Les Vêpres siciliennes at the Paris Opera. He boasts a repertoire encompassing some forty roles, from the great basso roles of Verdi, to Wotan and the Wanderer in Wagner’s Ring Cycle, but also including Méphistophélès (Faust), Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), the title role in Prince Igor, Pimène (Boris Godunov), and Prince Gremin (Eugene Onegin). He sang the role of Wotan at the Salzburg Easter Festival and the Dresden Semperoper under the direction of Christian Thielemann and at Saint Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre under the baton of Valery Gergiev.

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

The Gewandhausorchester is the oldest civic symphony orchestra in the world. The orchestra's nucleus was the concert society Das Große Concert, founded in 1743 by a group of 16 musical philanthropists, comprising noblemen and common citizen alike. The ensemble took residence in its first proper high-quality concert hall - adopting the name Gewandhausorchester - on moving to an upper hall of the textile merchants’ trading house in 1781.