Conductor Constantine Kitsopoulos is equally at home with opera, symphonic repertoire, film with live orchestra, musical theater, and composition. His work has taken him all over the world, where he has conducted the major orchestras of North America as well as the Hong Kong and Tokyo philharmonics. In addition to his engagements as guest conductor, he is music director of the Festival of the Arts Boca and general director of Chatham Opera. He is also general director of the New York Grand Opera and is working with the company to bring opera—free and open to the public—back to New York’s Central Park. He made his Philadelphia Orchestra debut in 2011.

During the 2022–23 season Mr. Kitsopoulos made his debut with the Chicago Symphony and returned to the New York Philharmonic and the Detroit, Phoenix, Vancouver, San Francisco, Houston, and New Jersey symphonies. Highlights of previous seasons include return engagements with the Dallas and Toronto symphonies and the Louisiana Philharmonic. He also conducted Leonard Bernstein’s MASS at Indiana University Opera Theater. He has developed semi-staged productions of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, for which he has written a new translation; Mozart’s Don Giovanni; and Puccini’s La bohème. He has conducted IU Opera Theater’s productions of Verdi’s Falstaff, J. Strauss, Jr.’s Die Fledermaus, Bolcom’s A View from the Bridge, Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore, Loesser’s The Most Happy Fella, Rodgers’s South Pacific and Oklahoma, Willson’s The Music Man, and Menotti’s The Last Savage.

Mr. Kitsopoulos was assistant chorus master at New York City Opera from 1984 to 1989. On Broadway he has been music director of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, A Catered Affair, Baz Luhrmann’s production of La bohème, Swan Lake, and Les Misérables. He studied piano with Marienka Michna, Chandler Gregg, Edward Edson, and Sophia Rosoff and conducting with Semyon Bychkov, Sergiu Commissiona, Gustav Meier, and Vincent La Selva.