Patrick Lange
Born near Nuremberg, Patrick Lange began his musical career at the age of eight in the Regensburger Domspatzen boys' choir.
After graduating from high school, he studied conducting at the music colleges in Würzburg and Zurich. In 2005 he was accepted into the “Conductors' Forum of the German Music Council” funding program and appointed by Claudio Abbado as assistant conductor of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, where he subsequently also worked with Herbert Blomstedt, Myung-Whun Chung, Sir Colin Davis, Philippe Jordan and Ingo Metzmacher. In 2007, Patrick Lange received the European Culture Prize, and in 2009 he received the Eugen Jochum Scholarship from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, which was awarded for the first time. Since then he has directed performances at major opera houses around the world.
After initial successes at the opera houses in Zurich and Lucerne as well as at the Komische Oper Berlin, where he served as chief conductor from 2010, he made his debut in the same year at the Vienna State Opera, where he is a regular guest. Further engagements subsequently took him to, among others, the Semperoper Dresden, the London Royal Opera House, the Hamburg State Opera, the Opera Australia in Sydney, the Bavarian State Opera, the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, the Korean National Opera in Seoul, the Stuttgart State Opera, the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg, the Frankfurt Opera and the Opéra national de Paris.
From 2017 to 2022 he was general music director of the Hessian State Theater Wiesbaden. During this time, he directed new productions of Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser, The Mastersingers of Nuremberg and The Flying Dutchman, Richard Strauss' Arabella, Salome and The Knight of the Rose, Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, Leoš Janáček's Jenůfa and Georges Bizet's Carmen. He also gained national attention for his adaptation of The Magic Flute for children.
In the 2024/25 season, Patrick Lange will direct new productions of Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly at the Landestheater Linz, of Gioachino Rossini's Le comte Ory at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris and of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman in St. Margarethen. At Opera North in England he conducts Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Magic Flute and at the Vienna State Opera the ballet production Mahler, live. He can also be seen at an opera gala at the Opéra national de Paris and at the New Year's Concert of the WDR Funkhausorchester. In symphonic concerts he conducts, among others, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, the Braunschweig State Orchestra and the Federal Youth Orchestra.
Patrick Lange also works with orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich, the Hamburg and Bamberg Symphony Orchestras, the Essen Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra as well as the SWR and WDR symphony orchestras and the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra in Venezuela. He toured with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the Stuttgart Philharmonic, the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna and several times with the Federal Youth Orchestra, with which he is closely associated.
Patrick Lange has presented several recordings, including albums with the clarinetist Shirley Brill and the Orchestre de Chambre Genève as well as with the tenors Pavol Breslik with the Munich Radio Orchestra and Maximilian Schmitt with the WDR Symphony Orchestra.