Hermann Bäumer
As of the 2025/26 season, the German conductor Hermann Bäumer will serve as music director of the State Opera in Prague. He will replace Andriy Yurkevych, who is leaving the post for personal reasons. New too will be Chief Chorus Master of the State Opera – from the 2025/26 season, Zuzana Kadlčíková will succeed Adolf Melichar, who will remain at the State Opera as Chorus Master.
Hermann Bäumer has collaborated with the State Opera previously, conducting, for instance, productions of Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. In June 2025, he will conduct a new adaptation of Aribert Reimann’s opera Lear.
Hermann Bäumer has been Principal Conductor of the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz and Music Director of the city’s Staatstheater since the 2011/2012 season. He is there in his last season now.
