Corinna Niemeyer

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About Corinna

Recent and future orchestral highlights include the Orchestre de Paris, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Hallé, MDR Sinfonieorchester, Kammerakademie Potsdam and Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León. Corinna has also had regular projects with Les Siècles and Ensemble Modern, and this season returns to Ensemble Intercontemporain.

Corinna Niemeyer was appointed Music Director of the Orchestre de Chambre du Luxembourg in September 2020, a position she held for four seasons. During her tenure the orchestra established relationships with several artists of international renowned and new audiences were attracted through her innovative programmes, encompassing works from Haydn and Mozart to Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été with Ian Bostridge and Ligeti’s Mysteries of the Macabre.

Corinna is establishing her reputation as an opera conductor, making her debut this season with both English National Opera (Suor Angelica) and Detroit Opera (new production of Cosi fan tutte ). She will also conduct staged productions of George Benjamin’s Picture a day like this in both Luxembourg and at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl. Corinna conducted the UK premiere of this work at the Royal Opera house last season, which followed her acclaimed debut in Autumn 2022 with a new production of Rape of Lucretia, co-produced with Britten Pears Arts.

Her enthusiasm for conveying music in innovative ways is reflected in the breadth of her activities, which include period music ensembles, contemporary premieres, cross-disciplinary projects, opera, as well as mainstream symphonic projects. She has established a reputation for her ability to connect with audiences and for her creative approach to presenting concerts.

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Season Highlights

Sep 2024
Soria, Spain
Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León Emmanuel Pahud (flute) Programme including Mozart, Cécile Chaminade, Mendelssohn Symphony No 4
Sep 2024
English National Opera, London
PUCCINI: Suor Angelica English National Opera Suor Angelica: Sinead Campbell Wallace The Princess: Christine Rice The Abbess: Madeleine Shaw The Monitress: Lea Shaw The Mistress of the Novices: Gaynor Keeble Sister Genovieffa: Alexandra Oomens
Feb 2025
Grand Theatre de la Ville, Luxembourg
George Benjamin: Picture a day like this Orchestre de Chambre du Luxembourg Woman: Marianne Crebassa Zabelle: Nikola Hillebrand Lover 1/Composer: Beate Mordal Lover 2/Composer's Assistant: Cameron Shahbazi Artisan/Collector: John Brancy

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  • Puccini: Suor Angelica

    English National Opera, London Coliseum
    Sep 2024
    • And in a superb house debut, it’s beautifully conducted by Corinna Niemeyer and faultlessly played. An outstanding achievement, and it should, by right, belong in ENO’s regular repertory. *****

    • The English National Opera Orchestra played Puccini’s score superbly under the eloquent baton of Corinne Niemeyer, while a selection of the ENO Chorus together with some distinguished solo singers completed an impeccable all-female company. *****

    • The conductor Corinna Niemeyer coaxed excellent playing from the ENO orchestra — often delicately misty and evocative but with a fierce tragic force unleashed at the tragic climax of one of Puccini’s most underrated scores.

    • Corinna Niemeyer, conducting without a baton, sweeps the music into a frightening mix of sentiment, religiosity, and despair.

    • …ENO’s superb orchestra… shade in the subtle colours and gentle harmonies of a score that once or twice rises to extraordinary heights of either emotional desperation or spiritual exaltation under the inspiring leadership of conductor Corinna Niemeyer.