Michael Zehetner

Michael Zehetner began as a pianist, later studying orchestral conducting at the Vienna Conservatory. He has received awards from Austria’s Federal Ministry of Arts and Culture, the Richard Wagner Association, and the Upper Austrian Government. He was appointed conductor at the German theatres of Detmold and Erfurt and has served as guest conductor at the Lehár Festival Bad Ischl, the Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra, The New Strings Orchestra, the Haydn Orchestra Bolzano, and the Polish-Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra. Since 2022 he has been chief conductor at Bühne Baden in Austria, where he has led numerous opera and operetta productions, several of which have been featured on DVD and television.