Paul Connelly
Paul Connelly, trained at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, gained his first professional experience as an assistant at the opera houses in Boston, Santa Fe and San Francisco and made his debut at the age of twenty-four as conductor of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess at the Houston Grand Opera. In San Francisco, he was Music Director of the Affiliate Artists Programme for Opera and was awarded an Exxon/Arts Endowment Conducting Fellowship. At the invitation of Mikhail Baryshnikov, he joined the American Ballet Theatre as Principal Conductor, where he had the opportunity to work with choreographers such as George Balanchine, Kenneth MacMillan, Jerome Robbins, Twyla Tharp and Anthony Tudor. At the same time, he was invited as a guest conductor with the New York City Ballet, Nureyev and Friends, and as Music Director of Baryshnikov and Co. He was also appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the National Ballet of Canada and worked on film and television productions including Baryshnikov’s Don Quixote with the ABT, Live from Lincoln Center and the series Dance in America. His major opera productions during this period included conducting Benjamin Britten’s Death in Venice, Claude Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.
Engagements throughout Europe followed, including the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and the Deutsche Oper Berlin, as well as the Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris, where several productions were filmed under his baton, including Giselle, John Neumeier’s Sylvia, George Balanchine’s Jewels and a programme of works by Roland Petit.
Further appearances have taken him to the Opéra de Nice, Opéra National de Bordeaux, Budapest State Opera, Den Norske Opera Oslo, Zurich Opera House, Royal Ballet London, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Het Nationale Ballet Amsterdam, Berlin State Ballet, Tokyo Ballet, Finnish National Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Korean National Ballet and the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, where, at the invitation of Riccardo Muti, he conducted, among others, Rossini’s Il turco in Italia, Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni as well as film productions of Giselle, Notre-Dame de Paris and most recently Alexei Ratmansky’s Coppélia. He also collaborated with the Danish Radio Orchestra and the Orchestre Colonne in Paris. In 2025, he was invited to the Teatro San Carlo, where he conducted a concert of American repertoire, among others.
In 1991 Paul Connelly made his debut at the Vienna State Opera with a ballet gala, followed by Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and has maintained an intensive association with the company ever since. To date, he has conducted The Nutcracker, Don Quixote, Romeo and Juliet, The Sleeping Beauty, La Fille mal gardée, Giselle, Jewels and Swan Lake with the Vienna State Ballet. In the 2025/26 season, he will conduct the premiere of Alexei Ratmanskyʼs Callirhoe as well as the revival of George Balanchine’s Jewels.
Paul Connelly’s DVD recordings include Mauro Bigonzetti’s Caravaggio with the Berlin State Ballet, Rudolf Nureyev’s The Nutcracker with the Vienna State Ballet and Christian Spuck’s Nutcracker and Mouse King with the Zurich Ballet.
Performances with Paul Connelly
Abo 21
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Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.
In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:
| 02. November 2025 | Pelléas et Mélisande |
| 01. Februar 2026 | La Traviata |
| 15. Februar 2026 | Jewels (Ballett) |
| 15. März 2026 | Le grand macabre |
| 21. Juni 2026 | Il trittico |
| 11. Oktober 2026 | Carmen |
| 29. November 2026 | Onegin |
| 31. Jänner 2027 | Don Carlos |
| 28. Februar 2027 | Norma |
| 23. Mai 2027 | Lulu |
Abo 5
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Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.
In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:
| 12. September 2025 | Die Zauberflöte |
| 05. Dezember 2025 | Madama Butterfly |
| 30. Jänner 2026 | Jewels (Ballett) |
| 20. Februar 2026 | Le grand macabre |
| 24. April 2026 | Simon Boccanegra |
| 11. September 2026 | Adriana Lecouvreur |
| 23. Oktober 2026 | Die Entführung aus dem Serail |
| 04. Dezember 2026 | Onegin |
| 30. April 2027 | Carmen |
| 18. Juni 2027 | Andrea Chénier |
Ballettzyklus »Ballettgeschichten«
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Vom arroganten Dandy zur traurigen Schwanenkönigin bis hin zu Frankreichs berühmtester Monarchin und der freiheitliebendsten Frau der Musikgeschichte. Die Ballettgeschichten versprechen Drama und Spannung und jede Menge Gefühl!
Abo 11
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Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.
In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:
| 01. Oktober 2025 | Il barbiere di Siviglia |
| 03. Dezember 2025 | Věc Makropulos |
| 11. März 2026 | Don Pasquale |
| 08. April 2026 | Parsifal |
| 27. Mai 2026 | Manon (Ballett) |
| 23. September 2026 | La clemenza di Tito |
| 18. November 2026 | Madama Butterfly |
| 16. Dezember 2026 | Onegin |
| 07. April 2027 | Manon Lescaut |
| 05. Mai 2027 | Die tote Stadt |
Schwanensee
Cast on Monday 21. December 2026
Schwanensee
Cast on Saturday 26. December 2026
Schwanensee
Cast on Monday 28. December 2026
Schwanensee
Cast on Wednesday 30. December 2026
Schwanensee
Cast on Saturday 2. January 2027
Schwanensee
Cast on Tuesday 5. January 2027