Patrick Lange’s conducting has been described as “sensuous and empathetic” (BR Klassik) and “from the first bar: magic!” (klassik begeistert).

He is a regular guest at theaters such as the Vienna State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and Paris National Opera. Other engagements have taken him to the Opéra du Capitole Toulouse, Semperoper Dresden, the Royal Opera House in London, Opera Australia in Sydney, Zurich Opera House, the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, the Korean National Opera in Seoul, Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg, Hamburg State Opera, Stuttgart State Theater, Frankfurt Opera and the Hong Kong Arts Festival, among others.

At the beginning of the 2025/26 season, he will be conducting The Magic Flute at the Vienna State Opera. At the Aalto Theater Essen, he will take on the musical direction of a new production of Hindemith’s Cardillac, directed by Guy Joosten, followed by the new production Waves and Circles by the Bavarian State Ballet in Munich. On the concert stage, he will perform with the Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover, the Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra, the George Enescu Philharmonic in Bucharest, and the German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken-Kaiserslautern, among others. As part of his commitment to promoting young talent, which is very close to his heart, he will be a jury member for the German Music Council’s German Conducting Awards.

In the 2024/25 season, he conducted new productions of Madama Butterfly at the Linz State Theater in Austria and Le comte Ory at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. A new production of Der fliegende Holländer in the first Wagner production of Oper im Steinbruch, Europe’s largest natural stage in St. Margarethen, will follow at the end of the season. In 2025, he has already conducted the same work at the Hessian State Theater in Wiesbaden and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. The German industry magazine Das Opernglas (5/25) wrote of the latter series of performances that it was “in a class of its own that overshadowed much of what one could hear here and elsewhere” and “equivalent to a sensation in its immediate overwhelming power”. He conducted The Magic Flute at Opera North in England and Mahler’s 4th Symphony in a ballet choreography by Martin Schläpfer at the Vienna State Opera is coming up. He also conducted a Bizet Gala at Paris National Opera and the WDR Radio Orchestra’s New Year’s Concert, as well as the Vienna State Opera’s 2025/26 Season Presentation, which was broadcast on Austrian National Television. In symphonic concerts, he has conducted the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, the Brunswick State Orchestra and – as part of his long-standing collaboration – the German National Youth Orchestra.

He opened his 2023/24 season with a new production of Madama Butterfly at the Seongnam Arts Center in South Korea, before returning to Paris National Opera for Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges and Ma mère l’oye, as well as Giselle, and to the Vienna State Opera for Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty. On tour with the Bavarian State Opera, he conducted Ariadne auf Naxos in Hong Kong and at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, he conducted a new production of Eugene Onegin. He appeared on the concert stage with the WDR Radio Orchestra in Cologne, the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sinfonica Madrid and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, among others.

In the 2022/23 season, Patrick Lange returned to the Vienna State Opera for Die Fledermaus and the ballets Sleeping Beauty and Im Siebten Himmel, and to Paris National Opera, where he conducted Stravinsky’s Firebird and Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. He also conducted Vasily Barkhatov’s new production of Der fliegende Holländer at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, led the new production of Der Freischütz at the Theater an der Wien and conducted Rusalka at the Komische Oper Berlin.

Patrick Lange was General Music Director of the Hessian State Theater in Wiesbaden from 2017 to 2022. During this time, he conducted new productions of Tannhäuser, Arabella, Un ballo in maschera, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Jenufa, Salome, Carmen, Der Rosenkavalier and Der Fliegende Holländer. He also attracted national attention with his adaptation of The Magic Flute for children.

He began his career as an opera conductor in Zurich and Lucerne, and made his debut at the Komische Oper Berlin in 2007 with Le nozze di Figaro. There, he subsequently became Principal Conductor in 2008 and Chief Conductor in 2010. His interpretations of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (director: Andreas Homoki), Rusalka (director: Barrie Kosky) and Der Freischütz (director: Calixto Bieito) received international acclaim and positive reviews in the national press.

Patrick Lange also works with orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria, the Hamburg and Bamberg Symphony Orchestras, the Essen Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the SWR and WDR Symphony Orchestras and the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra in Venezuela. He has toured with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the Stuttgart Philharmonic, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and several times with the German National Youth Orchestra, with which he is closely associated.

Born near Nuremberg in Germany, he began his musical career as an eight-year-old in the boys’ choir of the Regensburger Domspatzen. After graduating from high school, he studied conducting at the music academies in Würzburg and Zurich. In 2005, he was accepted into the German Music Council’s Conductors’ Forum support program and was appointed assistant conductor of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra by Claudio Abbado. Between 2005 and 2009, Patrick Lange assisted Claudio Abbado as well as Herbert Blomstedt, Myung-Whun Chung, Sir Colin Davis, Philippe Jordan and Ingo Metzmacher. As Claudio Abbado’s assistant, he also accompanied the Italian conductor to the Berlin Philharmonic, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and the Orchestra Mozart Bologna.

In 2007 Patrick Lange received the European Culture Prize in the category “Advancement Award for Young Conductors” and in 2009 the Eugen Jochum Scholarship of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, which was awarded for the first time.

Recordings with the clarinettist Shirley Brill (Orchestre de Chambre Genève, La Dolce Volta) and the tenors Pavol Breslik (Munich Radio Orchestra, Orfeo) and Maximilian Schmitt (WDR Symphony Orchestra, Oehms-Classics) are available commercially.

Patrick Lange has repeatedly appeared on television alongside Rolando Villazón in the series Starts of Tomorrow (Arte). In 2014, he also conducted the Staatskapelle Dresden in the program Christmas with the President of the Federal Republic of Germany (ZDF).