biography
Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Dessau Opera since 2009/10 Antony Hermus is already an intriguing musical presence in Germany, France and Benelux. The Dutchman was appointed Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Hagen Opera/Philharmonic Orchestra in 2003, where he has gained many
awards for his work.
Despite his young age Antony Hermus has already conducted a wide repertoire: numerous operas and symphonic pieces, most of them new productions, e. g. Chowantchina, Turandot, Weills Protagonist, I Pagliacci, Carmen, Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro, Faust, La Bohème, Tosca, Katja Kabanova, L’Enfant et les sortilèges, Il barbiere di Siviglia, La Forza del Destino, Der fliegende Holländer, Tannhäuser, Die tote Stadt, Elektra, Manon and Falstaff.
Apart from »standard-repertoire« Antony Hermus has been conducting many »rediscoveries« such as Die Königskinder by Humperdinck and Kleider machen Leute by Zemlinsky. He has also performed contemporary music with Where the Wild Things are by Oliver Knussen, the world premiere of the new version of Helle Nächte by Moritz Eggert and the German premiere of Dead Man Walking by Jake Heggie.
Recent engagements include Le Nozze di Figaro at the Komische Oper Berlin, Un ballo in maschera at the Nationale Reisopera, Matrimonio Segreto by Cimarosa and Cosi fan tutte at the Opéra National de Paris, Tsar Saltan by Rimsky-Korsakov at the Opera Zuid, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte and Der Freischütz in Rennes.
Antony Hermus conducted the Orchestre de Bretagne, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Orchestre de l’Opera de Rouen, MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln, Staatsphilharmonie RheinlandPfalz, the orchestras of Freiburg, Kiel, Oldenburg, Duisburg, Bochum, Magdeburg, Jena, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Norrköping Symphony, RTE National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Residentie Orkest, Holland Symfonia, Brabants Orchestra,
Noord Nederlands Orkest etc.
Further engagements include return visits to many of these orchestra, and upcoming debuts at Residentieorkest Den Haag, Orkest van het Oosten, Orchestre symfonique de Mulhouse, Opéra de Bordeaux, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Opera Toulon Provence Mediterranée, as well as Staatsoper Stuttgart (Don Giovanni) and Sonderyillandorchestra.
His discography includes a highly praised CD with Mahler and Hans Rott and the symphonic version of Tristan and Isolde with the Philharmonic Orchestra Hagen, Siegmund Hausegger’s „Barbarossa“ and „Ries und Erle“ with Norrköping Symphony and Johan Wagenaar’s Summers of Life with Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie for cpo records.
Already in 2002 Antony Hermus was a scholarship holder of the Richard-Wagner-Society and got the Kulturpreis of the city of Hagen. In the reviewer survey of 2007 und 2008 Antony Hermus received many
nominations as the best conductor of the season in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Both in 2010 and 2011 he was nominated by the renowned magazine "Opernwelt" as "Conductor of the year".
Born in the Netherlands in 1973 Antony Hermus started playing the piano at the age of six. At the Tilburg Music Conservatory he studied piano with Jacques de Tiège and orchestra conducting with Jac van Steen and Georg Fritzsch.
