Alexander Steinitz (born 17 January 1967) is an Austrian conductor and since 2018 first Kapellmeister of the Theatre of West Pomerania.
After his secondary school years in Vienna, he studied conducting with Karl Österreicher and Leopold Hager, music theory with Diether de la Motte and composition with Kurt Schwertsik.
After graduating, he completed a year abroad at Yale University on the basis of a sponsorship award from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts, where he perfected his conducting studies with Günther Herbig, Eleazar de Carvalho and Lawrence Leighton Smith.
From the 2003/2004 season onwards, he worked as first conductor at the theatre of the state capital Magdeburg, where he conducted opera productions such as Mozart's the marriage of Figaro, Così fan tutte, Rossini's The Barber of Seville and Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice.
Highlights of the past seasons have included a new production of the opera La forza del destino by Giuseppe Verdi at the Staatstheater Braunschweig, an open-air realisation of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana in Magdeburg and a collaboration with choreographer Youri Vámos on the re-staging of his ballet The Fall of Otello in Gera.