Abdullah made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 2009 conducting Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, which The New York Times lauded as “a confident performance, impressively responsive to the singers during their long stretches of orchestra-accompanied recitative.”īorn in Indiana, Mr. Abdullah has guest conducted such esteemed companies as the Opera de Lorraine, where he conducted La clemenza di Tito, and the Théâtre du Châtelet de Paris, where he led sold-out performances of Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha.
Abdullah’s 2009-10 season: leading the Orquestra de São Paulo, one of Brazil’s most celebrated classical music ensembles, on its third United States coast-to-coast tour, and substituting on very short notice to conduct the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra in performances of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in collaboration with the Mark Morris Dance Group. Of special note are three acclaimed orchestral engagements from Mr.
Gallen Symphony, Nuremburg Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Weimar, Finnish Radio Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, Mexico City Philharmonic, Oregon Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony and Cincinnati Symphony. Among his recent orchestral credits are the St. Abdullah continues to develop relationships with national and international orchestras and opera houses. In addition to his symphony engagements, he conducted an opera gala for the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the American premiere of Charles Wuorinen’s opera Brokeback Mountain with the New York City Opera and Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda for Cape Town Opera.Ī passionate advocate of new music as well as established repertoire, Mr. Abdullah made appearances with the Colour of Music Festival in Charleston, South Carolina, the Brandenburg State Orchestra of Frankfurt, South Westphalia Philharmonic and Jacksonville Symphony. Smith, for the Cincinnati Opera, and Terrance Blanchard’s opera Champion at the Michigan Opera Theater. In addition, he will conduct the world premiere of a new opera, Castor and Patience by Gregory Spears and former poet laureate Tracy K.
Abdullah will make appearances with the New World Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Chautauqua Festival Orchestra, Residentie Orchestra in The Hague, Oregon Symphony and Minnesota Orchestra. His predecessors in this tradition-rich post include Fritz Busch, Herbert von Karajan and Wolfgang Sawallisch. He was Generalmusikdirektor (Music and Artistic Director) of the City of Aachen, Germany from 2012 to 2017.
A vibrant, versatile and compelling presence on the podium, American conductor Kazem Abdullah currently lives in Nuremberg, Germany.
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