Daniel Oren
Daniel Oren was born in Tel Aviv and studied singing, piano, and cello. At the age of 13, he was chosen by Leonard Bernstein to sing the solo part in Chichester Psalms live on Israeli television.
At 17, Daniel Oren began his career as a conductor at the university in Berlin, where he won first prize at the International Herbert von Karajan Competition in 1975. In 1978, he made his US debut at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto and simultaneously began a career in Italy, where he was appointed Music Director of the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome in 1978. Also in Italy, he served as Music Director of the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, and the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.
He was also Music Director of the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv and was later appointed its Principal Conductor. In 2019, he was named Music Director of the Arena di Verona Opera Festival, where he recently celebrated 40 years of continuous collaboration, becoming the conductor with the highest number of appearances in the history of this prestigious festival since 1913.
He is also a guest conductor at the world’s leading opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Vienna State Opera, La Scala in Milan, and in San Francisco, Houston, Buenos Aires, Paris, Tel Aviv, and Tokyo. In addition, he has conducted the Berlin Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Munich Radio Orchestras, and the Budapest Festival Orchestra, among others.
Since 2007, he has been Artistic Director of the Teatro dell’Opera Giuseppe Verdi in Salerno, where he led a conducting masterclass for the first time in 2022. He has made recordings for RCA, Decca, Arthaus Musik, TDK, and other renowned labels. These include a live recording of Tosca at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome with Luciano Pavarotti and Raina Kabaivanska, which was also revived in Vienna and Turin.
Among his most recent recording successes is La traviata, recorded for the Pentatone label with the Dresden Philharmonic. Alongside numerous outstanding reviews, this recording received the 2022 NativeDSD Music Award for Best Album of the Year. In 2024, he was awarded the prestigious Premio Abbiati in the category Best Production of the Year for the musical direction of a new production of La Juive at the Teatro Regio in Turin. He made his debut at the Vienna State Opera in 1994.
Performances with Daniel Oren
with Anna Netrebko, Ivan Gyngazov, Christopher Maltman, Conductor: Daniel Oren
Tosca
Cast on Wednesday 15. April 2026
with Anna Netrebko, Ivan Gyngazov, Christopher Maltman, Conductor: Daniel Oren
Tosca
Cast on Saturday 18. April 2026
with Anna Netrebko, Ivan Gyngazov, Christopher Maltman, Conductor: Daniel Oren
Tosca
Cast on Monday 20. April 2026