Now in his tenth year as Boston Lyric Opera’s Music Director, David Angus recently navigated new and innovative concepts of presenting opera online, serving as Music Director and conductor for the critically-acclaimed productions of desert in and The Fall of the House of Usher.

In addition to his ongoing work with BLO, Angus’s upcoming projects this season include a return to the Wexford Festival and a rescheduled engagement with the London Philharmonic, with whom he regularly conducts concerts and recordings. Just before lockdown in 2020, he returned to Hawaii Opera Theatre for a run of Le Nozze di Figaro.

Prior to his time at Boston Lyric Opera, where he has conducted the majority of performances since 2011, Angus was Music Director of Glimmerglass Opera in upstate New York and Chief Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of Flanders in Belgium. He has led orchestras and choirs all over Europe, notably in Scandinavia where he has been a regular guest with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra and several Danish orchestras. Born in England, he has conducted most of the major orchestras in Great Britain including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, most of the BBC orchestras and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

In recent seasons, he made debuts at the Toscanini Orchestra in Parma in Italy and the Porto Symphony Orchestra in Brazil. He returned to Wexford Festival Opera, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Huddersfield Choral Society, as well as his former orchestra in Belgium for the world premiere of Piet Swerts’s Symphony of Trees.

Born in England, David Angus spent his early years in Belfast. He was a boy chorister at King’s College under Sir David Willcocks, and read music at Surrey University. He finished his training with a Fellowship in Conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, where he won several prizes for opera conducting.