Vitali Alekseenok

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

Vitali Alekseenok captivates audiences with his penetrating musicality, mature interpretations, and an open yet profound artistic personality, making him one of the most exciting talents of the younger generation of conductors.

Since August 2024, Alekseenok has served as Chief Conductor of Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and Duisburg, where he had already joined as Kapellmeister in autumn 2022. During the 2026/27 season, he conducts new productions of Manon Lescaut and Jenůfa, as well as revivals of Die Zauberflöte, La Bohème, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung.

Further operatic engagements in the 2026/27 season include his debut at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm with Tosca and a return to Hamburg State Opera for the Hamburg premiere of Petrushka & L’Enfant et les Sortilèges.

Vitali Alekseenok has also established a strong international presence as a symphonic conductor. In summer 2026, he conducts the opening concert of the Salzburg Festival and a concert with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra as part of the Festival de Torroella de Montgrí. During the 2026/27 season, he makes his debuts with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, and Nuremberg Philharmonic. In addition, he returns to Opéra de Lyon and the Sofia Philharmonic for symphonic programmes.

During the 2025/26 season, Alekseenok conducted, among others, the new productions of Fidelio (concert performance) and Elektra at Deutsche Oper am Rhein, as well as revivals of Die Walküre, Le nozze di Figaro, and Tosca. The widely acclaimed new production of Elektra was particularly celebrated by audiences and critics alike. The season also included significant debuts with the Dresden Philharmonic, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonie Zuidnederland, and Orchestre National de Montpellier, as well as at Opéra National de Lyon (Boris Godunov) and Semperoper Dresden (Madama Butterfly).

In previous seasons, his symphonic engagements have taken him to the RTÉ Concert Orchestra Dublin, Klangforum Wien, Munich Chamber Orchestra, MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig, Staatskapelle Weimar, Robert Schumann Philharmonic Chemnitz, Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck, Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, and Beethovenfest Bonn. As Principal Guest Conductor, he has also appeared regularly with Teatro Massimo Bellini. His short-notice substitution conducting Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 with the Dresden Staatskapelle was enthusiastically received by orchestra, audience, and critics alike.

In the operatic field, Vitali Alekseenok has conducted, among others, new productions of Nabucco and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the world premiere of Pierangelo Valtinoni’s Il piccolo principe at La Scala in Milan, and the first performance of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde in Ukraine at the National Opera of Ukraine. Guest engagements have also taken him to Deutsche Oper Berlin, Hamburg State Opera, the Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and Teatro Comunale di Bologna. The world premiere of Olga Podgaiskaya’s King Stakh’s Wild Hunt, which he conducted at London’s Barbican Centre, was nominated for an Olivier Award.

Vitali Alekseenok studied trombone in Minsk and conducting in St. Petersburg and Weimar. In 2021, he won First Prize at the Arturo Toscanini Conducting Competition in Parma, where he also received the Audience Prize and the award for the best performance of a Verdi opera.

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