Vitali Alekseenok

Chief Conductor Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf | Duisburg
Principal Guest Conductor Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania

Vitali Alekseenok fascinates with his pervading musicality and well-rounded interpretations, as well as his open and at the same time profound personality as one of the most exciting talents of the young generation of conductors.

Since August 2024, Alekseenok has been Chief Conductor of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, where he started as Kapellmeister in autumn 2022. In the 2025/26 season, he conducts premieres of Fidelio (concert version) and Elektra, as well of revivals of Die Walküre, Le nozze di Figaro and Tosca in Düsseldorf/Duisburg.

The 2025/26 season also includes significant debuts for Vitali Alekseenok: with the DSO-Berlin, Dresdner Philharmonie, hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Wiener Symphoniker, Philharmonie Zuidnederland and the Orchestre National de Montpellier, as well as with the Opéra National de Lyon (Boris Godunow) and the Semperoper Dresden (Madama Butterfly).

In 2024/25, Alekseenok led the premiere of Nabucco and Lady Macbeth of Mzensk at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, alongside revivals of La traviata, Das Rheingold, and Eugene Onegin. He also conducted concerts of the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker and Duisburger Philharmoniker. Guest appearances included the Staatsoper Hamburg (ballet), Deutsche Oper Berlin, and symphonic engagements with the Robert Schumann Philharmonie Chemnitz, Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck, Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle, Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester, and a return to the Teatro Massimo Bellini as Principal Guest Conductor with Trilogia dell’estasi and Mahler’s 3rd Symphony.

In previous seasons, Vitali Alekseenok was a guest at the Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Florence, Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini in Parma, the orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, RTÉ Concert Orchestra Dublin, Klangforum Wien, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Staatskapelle Weimar, mdr Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Sofia Philharmonic and the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, among others, as well as at the Beethovenfest Bonn and the Salzburg Festival.
His debut with the Staatskapelle Dresden and Shostakovich’s 7th Symphony, stepping in for Tugan Sokhiev on short notice, was received enthusiastically by orchestra, audience and press alike.

In the operatic field, Vitali Alekseenok conducted the world premiere of Pierangelo Valtinoni‘s Il piccolo principe at the Scala di Milano and the first Ukrainian performance of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde at the National Opera in Kyiv. The world premiere of Olga Podgaiskaya’s King Stakh's Wild Hunt, conducted by him at London’s Barbican Centre, was nominated for an Olivier Award.

Vitali Alekseenok studied trombone in Minsk, as well as conducting in St. Petersburg and Weimar. In 2021, he won the 1st prize at the Arturo Toscanini Conducting Competition in Parma, where he also received the Audience Award and the prize for the best performance of a Verdi opera.

He is the author of the book The White Days of Minsk (S. Fischer Frankfurt, 2021) and has been Artistic Director of the KharkivMusicFest in Ukraine since June 2021.