Hannu Lintu

Hannu Lintu enters his eighth year as Chief Conductor of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in the 2020/21 season. Highlights include Schumann’s Faust Szenen, Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust and the second-ever FRSO Festival – devoted in 2019 to new and large-scale works by national composer Magnus Lindberg.

In May 2019 Lintu was appointed Chief Conductor of the Finnish National Opera and Ballet, a role which he commences in August 2021 as his final season as the FRSO’s Chief Conductor comes to a close. The appointment follows a series of hugely successful collaborations with the company – including Tristan und Isolde in 2016, Sibelius’s Kullervo in 2017, Berg’s Wozzeck in 2019 and Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos in 2020 – and reflects Lintu’s shifting focus into the field of opera. Future productions will include the majority of the house’s rescheduled Ring cycle which will recommence with Die Walkure in Autumn 2022.

Also in 2021 Lintu makes his highly anticipated debut with Opéra national de Paris, conducting Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer. Lintu also regularly conducts at the Savonlinna Festival, most recently for productions of Verdi’s Otello (2018) and Sallinen’s Kullervo (in 2017, as part of Finland’s centenary celebrations).