Roland Kluttig has been chief conductor of the Graz Opera and the Graz Philharmonic since the 2020 season. After he had successfully directed new productions of Paul Dukas’s Ariane et Barbe Bleu and Karol Szymanowski’s Król Roger at this house in previous years, the 20/21 season began with a production of Mieczysław Weinberg’s opera The Passenger which has been recorded and released on CD and DVD. His stepping in at the Salzburg Festival in 2021 with a performance of Morton Feldman’s opera Neither and the RSO Vienna was a great success. From 2010 to 2020, Kluttig was general music director at the Landestheater Coburg, where he made headlines in particular with his conducting of Lohengrin and Parsifal, inspired the audience with new concert formats and was nominated as conductor of the year for his conducting of Beethoven’s Fidelio of the Opernwelt magazine.

Roland Kluttig also directed the new productions of Salome directed by Kirill Serebrennikow and Le nozze di Figaro at the Stuttgart State Opera – a house where he was engaged as Kapellmeister and assistant conductor from 2000 to 2004 and has been a regular guest since 2012. He also conducted at the Hamburg State Opera (Die tote Stadt) and directs new productions at the Frankfurt Opera (Euryanthe), the Opera du Rhin Strasbourg (a Kurt Weill evening), the Leipzig Opera (Die Liebe zu Drei Oranges) and the Swedish Norrlandsoperan (Peter Grimes and Wozzeck).

In the concert field, he has performed with a repertoire ranging from Rameau to Lachenmann with orchestras such as the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonia, Helsinki Radio Symphony Orchestra, Copenhagen Philharmonic, Prague Philharmonia, Seoul Philharmonic or the Orchester Philharmonique de Luxembourg.

Kluttig studied in Dresden, attended master classes with conductors such as Peter Eotvos and John Eliot Gardiner and was supported by the conductors’ forum of the German Music Council, the Akademie Schlos Solitude and the Herbert von Karajan Foundation.