Sylvain Cambreling is General Music Director of Stuttgart Opera. He is also Principal Conductor of the Yokiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo. Previously he was Chief Conductor of the SWR Sinfonieorchester, Principal Guest Conductor of Klangforum Wien as well as Music Director at the Brussels and Frankfurt Opera. He has also conducted extensively at the Opéra National de Paris and the Salzburg Festival.

Cambreling balances his opera engagements with appearances with the world’s leading orchestras, including the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestrass, Orchestre de Paris, Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.

Cambreling is famous for the originality of his concert-planning and persuasive championship of contemporary music. In 2009 he received the ›Echo Klassik Conductor of the Year‹ Award and in 2010 the Midem Contempary Music Award for his recording of works by Olivier Messiaen.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s ›Così fan tutte‹ during the Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) in 2014 marks his first collaboration with The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen.

Born in Plauen in 1986, Anett Fritsch studied with Professor Jürgen Kurth at the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Music College in Leipzig. In 2001 she won first prize in the Johann Sebastian Bach competition in Leipzig and in 2006 and 2007 she was also among the prize winners of the International Chamber Opera Competition in Schloss Rheinsberg.

In 2007/08 Anett Fritsch sang a number of roles at the Leipzig Opera and, since 2009, she has been a member of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Ensemble in Düsseldorf/Duisberg. She enjoyed enormous personal success with her debut at the Glyndebourne Festival as Amirena in Handel’s ‘Rinaldo, as well as with Merione in Gluck’s Telemaco at the Theater an der Wien.

She has also sung in Mozart‘s Cosi Fan Tutti at the Teatro Real Madrid, which was subsequently performed in 2014 at the Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels and – with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen – at the Vienna Festival, also in 2014.

Anett Fritsch made her debut at the Salzburger Festspiele in 2014 as Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. For her debut with the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Anett Fritsch performed the role of Susanna in Mozart’s Figaro.