EvanRogister

Evan Rogister is the Principal Conductor of the Washington National Opera and the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra. With artistic endeavours ranging from Mozart with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment to Wagner’s complete cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen, and Terence Blanchard’s contemporary masterpiece, Fire Shut Up in My Bones, Evan Rogister—a dual citizen of the United States and Germany—is one of the most eclectic and versatile conductors on the international scene.

Evan returns to The Metropolitan Opera in the 2024/25 season to conduct Simon McBurney’s production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. Additional highlights include a new production of Verdi’s Macbeth for Washington National Opera and concerts with the Opernhaus Zürich Orchestra. In the summer of 2024 Rogister debuts at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, conducting the 40th Anniversary concerts of the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra—both in Aix and on tour. During the summer of 2023, Evan made a critically acclaimed debut at the Glyndebourne Festival, leading the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Mozart’s Don Giovanni.

Equally at home on the concert stage as in the pit, recent symphonic projects include collaborations with the Swedish Radio Symphony, Bergen Philharmonic, l’Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Badische Staatskapelle, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Gothenburg Symphony, l’Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Essen Philharmoniker, Mälmo Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony, and the Atlanta Symphony.