Stefan Klingele

He has been music director and chief conductor of the Musikalische Komödie in Leipzig since 2015.

Born in Ingolstadt, Klingele began as a répétiteur with conducting duties at the Nationaltheater Mannheim (1993-1996), moved to the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Munich (1996-1999) as conductor/correpétiteur and finally to the Bremer Theater (1999-2007) as First Kapellmeister.

[2] Since the Bremen engagement, Klingele has appeared as a guest on European stages, including The production of Intolleranza 1960 at the Hanover State Opera under his musical direction was awarded the "Der Faust" for the best musical theatre direction of the season 2010/11 (director Benedikt von Peter [de]).

[4] Since the 2015/16 season, Klingele has been music director and chief conductor of the Musikalische Komödie in Leipzig.

There he studied, among other things Wiener Blut, Hape Kerkeling's Kein Pardon – Das Musical [de], On the Town and Madame Pompadour.