Benjamin returns to conduct one of Poland’s most established period ensembles Musicae
Antiquae Collegium Varsoviense (from the Warsaw Chamber Opera) at the 26th Warsaw Mozart Festival in June.
Benjamin conducts the final premiere of the Shakespeare Season at the Budapest State Opera -
Henry Purcell’s Fairy Queen, turned into an “opera noir” by director András Almási-Tóth, and featuring the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra and the Fekete-Kovács Quintet.
On Sunday February 28th, Benjamin will make his debut at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, conducting the combined forces of Collegium Vocale Gent and Akademie für Alte Musik in a fantastic programme featuring two of Handel's most famous Odes: "The Ways of Zion do mourn" and the "Ode for St.Cecilia's Day".
Benjamin returns to Dutch National Opera, in collaboration with the Dutch National Youth
Orchestra, to lead in Cimarosa’s comic opera Il Matrimonio Segreto as part of the Opera Forward Festival: a new festival that explores the future of opera through innovative and groundbreaking projects.
Benjamin leads the Hong Kong Philharmonic conducting Bach’s most celebrated works for
orchestra - the Six Brandenburg Concertos - from the harpsichord, as well as performing the virtuosic solo harpsichord part of the Fifth Concerto. Performances will take place at the Hong Kong City Hall.
At short notice, Benjamin will jump in as conductor of Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito at the Polish National Opera. Benjamin, who is quickly becoming one of the most important young foreign conductors working in Poland - appearing frequently with Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Warsaw Chamber Opera and Wratislavia Cantans - takes over this production (a co-production with La Monnaie, Brussels) with performances on January 16th, 19th, 21st, 24th and 27th.
Benjamin made his debut at the Wiener Staatsoper, conducting the world premiere of “Fatima, oder von den mutigen Kindern”, a new opera for children by the Austrian composer Johanna Doderer. The critics and audiences, both young and old, were unanimous in their praise of the production. Click here for a selection of the reviews.
Benjamin Bayl will be making his debut at the Wiener Staatsoper with the world premiere of Johanna Doderer’s Fatima, oder von den mutigen Kindern, an especially commissioned opera for young audiences, based on a children’s story by the Syrian-German writer Rafik Schami. Benjamin conducts the 5 performances between December 23rd and January 6th.