Alexander Winterson
opera coach, conductor, German repertoire specialist.
has worked as chief coach at Covent Garden, La Bastille and Chatelet in Paris, Berlin State Opera, Opéra de Lyon, Royal Opera Copenhagen and the Korean National Opera in Seoul. As Head of Music he worked at La Monnaie in Brussels from 1999 to 2002 with music director Sir Antonio Pappano before becoming Head of Music at the Hamburg State Opera in 2003. 2010 to 2015 he concentrated on work with the International Opera Studio Hamburg as Music Director. As conductor he has worked in several of the major Opera Houses in Germany, including the
Stuttgart Opera, Düsseldorf Opera, the Hamburg State Opera, Schwetzingen Festival and Wiener
Festwochen: “Idomeneo,” “Don Giovanni,” “Barbiere di Siviglia,”“Turco in Italia,” “Der Freischütz,” “La Traviata,” “Gianni Schicchi” and “Jenufa.” At La Monnaie he conducted Verdi’s “Falstaff” with José van Dam in the title role.
He has conducted many works of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries including “Die Gespenstersonate” of Aribert Reimann, “Angels in America” of Peter Eötvös, the Three One-Act
Operas of Ernst Krenek, “Maschinist Hopkins” of Max Brand, “Bremer Freiheit” and “Der gute Gott von Manhatten” of Adriana Hölszky and “Seven Angels” of Luke Bedford. He recorded the ballet “Kraanerg” of Iannis Xenakis with the Sinfonieorchester Basel.
