Constantine Kitsopoulos has established himself as a dynamic conductor known for his ability to work in many different genres and settings. He is equally at home with opera, symphonic repertoire, film with live orchestra, music theatre, and composition. His work has taken him all over the world where he has conducted the major orchestras of North America, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and the Tokyo Philharmonic.

He is music director of the Festival of the Arts Boca and General Director of Chatham Opera. He is 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.

This season, Maestro Kitsopoulos will make his debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and will conduct return engagements with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Detroit, Phoenix, Houston, Vancouver, New Jersey, and San Francisco symphonies.

He has developed semi-staged productions of Mozart’s The Magic Flute—for which he wrote a new translation—Don Giovanni and La Bohème. He has conducted numerous IU Opera Theatre productions; he was assistant chorus master at New York City Opera from 1984–89.

On Broadway, Kitsopoulos has been music director of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s  Cinderella, The Gershwins’  Porgy and Bess, A Catered Affair, Coram Boy, Baz Luhrmann’s production of Puccini’s La Bohème, Swan Lake and Les Misérables. He was music director of ACT’s production of Weill/Brecht’s Happy End and made the only English-language recording of the piece for Sh-K-Boom Records.