About
Guillermo García Calvo (Madrid, August 4, 1978) is a Spanish conductor. Since 2002, García Calvo has maintained a close relationship with the State Opera of Vienna, where he has been responsible for the musical preparation of more than fifty titles of the operatic repertoire and has directed more than 200 performances.1 He had a first period as Korrepetitor (master repertorista, who is in charge of rehearsing and supporting ballet dancers or opera singers) fixed in the theater, which lasted until June 2010.
Born in Madrid in 1978, Guillermo García Calvo began his musical education with seven years with the piano as the main instrument. He finished his musical studies at the University of Music and Dramatic Art in Vienna with a thesis on Parsifal and an interpretation of the Overture of Tannhäuser in the Großer Saal del Musikverein. Between 2001 and 2002 he worked as an assistant to Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra and in the summer of 2007 for Christian Thielemann in the production of El ring del nibelungo at the Bayreuther Festspiele.
He made his debut as an opera director in 2003 with Hansel and Gretel at the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn (de) (at age 25), and in December 2009 he replaced Daniele Gatti in a new Macbeth production of the Vienna State Opera. Also it is possible to emphasize his debut in the German Opera of Berlin with La Cenerentola.
In January 2016 he made his debut at the Opera of Florence (it) with the Maggio Fiorentino orchestra playing Goescas by Enric Granados and El amor brujo by Manuel de Falla. Also, in April of that same year, he made his debut at the Palais Garnier de París.
In May he was responsible for the "premiere in modern times" of the opera Elena e Malvina by Ramón Carnicer with the National Orchestra and Choirs of Spain.