A member of the Brazilian Academy of Music since 2003, he was appointed artistic director of the Municipal Theatre of São Paulo from January 2013 until September 2016,[1] when he was dismissed under accusations of fiscal mismanagement.

[2] He studied conducting under Hans Swarowsky and Reinhold Schmid in Vienna and under Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa in Tanglewood.

[citation needed] He came back to Brazil in 1973 to assume the position of music director of the municipal theaters of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

In 2013 Neschling was appointed as the artistic director of Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, where he served until September 2016, when he was dismissed under accusations of fiscal misconduct.

[9][10] An investigative inquiry was started by a São Paulo state appointed panel, but Neschling refused to answer the officials' questions, and then fled Brazil.