Titus Engel announced as Conductor in Residence of 2026/27 season at the Deutsche Oper Berlin
During the press conference on Sep 22, Aviel Cahn, designated general director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin as of summer 2026, alongside Senator for Culture Sarah Wedl Wilson, presented the plans for the theatre’s future musical direction:
Excerpt from the press release
“In the first years of Aviel Cahn’s tenure, the Deutsche Oper will not appoint a new General Music Director (GMD), but rather rely on a team of conductors. As Principal Guest Conductors, the young conductors Maxime Pascal and Michele Spotti will set important artistic standards with the Deutsche Oper Berlin Orchestra. As Conductor in Residence, Titus Engel will complement the musical leadership team in a more dynamic and diverse way.
‘I am very pleased that we could attract Maxime Pascal and Michele Spotti, two enormously renowned and vastly different conductors, to commit to our theatre’, says Cahn. ‘Pascal has deep roots in the 20 th century repertoire while Spotti is a younger representative of great Italian Romantic tradition. I have been working with Titus Engel for many years. Few conductors in the German speaking opera world are as open and as innovative as he is.’
[…] The Conductor in Residence, Titus Engel, will conduct world creations, a symphonic concert, and will be involved in develop ing innovative projects and cooperations in the Tischlerei (smaller stage of the Deutsche Oper) and in a larger local, urban context.
Titus Engel: ‘I am really looking forward to realising exciting and innovative opera projects and concerts at the Deutsche Oper and to help build the bridge between the great and venerable institution and the dazzling life of the Berlin scene.’ […]”
