Sun, Oct. Since September , he has been General Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg. Furthermore, he conducts symphony concerts with the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester in the Elbphilharmonie as he does every season, including the New Year's performance and the world premiere of Alex Nante's symphony Anahata, a work commissioned by the Philharmonic State Orchestra. Michaelis, open-air concerts at the Rathausmarkt and the world premiere of Pascal Dusapin's work Waves for organ and orchestra at the Elbphilharmonie.
Orchestral tours with the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg have taken Kent Nagano to Japan, Spain and South America. He also conducts Dusapin's Il Vaggio, Dante in a production by Claus Guth at the Paris Opera and the revival of Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre in a production by Krzysztof Warlikowski at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. A special project was the Bernstein opera A quiet place at the Paris Opera.
Other opera productions include the world premiere of Dusapin's Il viaggio, dante at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Hindemith's Cardillac, Henze's Die Bassariden and the world premiere of Saariaho's L'amour de loin at the Salzburg Festival. Under the artistic direction of Kent Nagano and the Intendant of the Dresdner Musikfestspiele Jan Vogler, Wagner's Ring Tetralogy will be performed in the artistic context of the period in which it was composed, based on the latest findings of research into Wagner and performance practice, and integrated into an extensive supporting program as part of the multi-year project The Wagner Cycles of the Dresdner Musikfestspiele from to The first performance in was Das Rheingold at the Dresden Music Festival and the tour to Cologne, Ravello and Lucerne under the musical direction of Kent Nagano.
Die Walküre followed in as the second work in the epochal narrative in Prague, Amsterdam, Cologne, Dresden, Hamburg and Lucerne. In , the project devotes itself to Richard Wagner's Siegfried and gives historically informed concert performances in international concert halls and opera houses. Tours have taken Nagano and the orchestra to Canada including the Northern Territories, Japan, South Korea, Europe latest , Latin America and the USA.
Luke Passion with the OSM at the Salzburg Festival opening concert. Decca released a recording of the North American premiere of L'Aiglon, a rarely performed opera by Honegger and Ibert in , conducted by Nagano in Further releases by Decca are Danse Macabre with works by Dukas, Saint-Saens, Ives and others in as well as a recording of Bernstein's A quiet place in on the occasion of the composer's th birthday.
