is the Artistic and General Director of Long Beach Opera, since Oct. 2003. In which he has conducted a number of productions including Elektra, Bluebeard's Castle, Volo di Notte by Dallapiccola, Jenufa and most recently The Ring of The Nibelung by Richard Wagner. He is also increasingly sought after as a guest conductor in North America, leading productions for the Seattle Opera (Der Freischütz, Eugene Onegin and Cosi Fan Tutte), Opera Company of Philadelphia (Salome), Vancouver Opera (The Rake’s Progress), Austin Lyric Opera (Salome, Faust, Rigoletto), Hawaii Opera Theater (Le Nozze di Figaro and Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci) and Yale Opera (Le Nozze di Figaro).
A native of Austria, he served as Music Director of the Wiener Operntheater from 1990 - 1997, which earned critical and popular acclaim as the foremost contemporary opera company in Austria presenting the world premiere of The Eternal Triangle Trio by Farber (1996), the Austrian premieres and Viennese premieres of of Der Reigen by Boesmans (1997), Der Revisor by W. Egk (1992), Oedipe by Enescu (1993), Le Grand Macabre by Ligeti (1994), The Second Mrs. Kong by Birtwistle (1996), Das Schloss by Reimann (1996), Nixon in China by Adams (1997), Death in Venice by Britten(1994), The Devils of Loudon by Penderecki (1995).
Biography
Elsewhere, Mr. Mitisek has conducted Die Fledermaus and Orfeo ed Euridice at the Komische Oper Berlin, the world premiere and CD recording of Mashayeki's Malakut for Claudio Abbado's festival "Wien Modern", Lehar´s Giuditta and Britten´s Midsummernight´s Dream at the Vienna Volksoper, La Clemenza di Tito at the Wiener Konzerthaus, plus concerts with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra at the Brucknerhaus, Linz and on radio broadcasts, Britten Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra Györ, and Savaria Symphony Orchestra in Hungary and various German opera houses. He has also conducted Die Fledermaus in Valencia and at the Festival in San Sebastian, Spain.
Mr. Mitisek is originally from Vienna, Austria, where he studied Organ and
Conducting at the Hochschule
für Musik and Darstellende Kunst in Wien, and simultaneous studies
of voice, piano, harpsichord, and composition at the Konsvervatorium der
Stadt Wien. His career as a concert artist led him to nearly every country
in Europe, including the renowned Maggio Musicale, Salzburger
Festspiele, and Wiener Festwochen.
He made his conducting debut conducting Handel's Brockes-Passion with
the Collegium Musicum Wien in 1987. During the 1987-88 season, he served
as head vocal coach and conductor at the Wiener
Kammeroper and taught vocal interpretation at the Konservatorium der
Stadt Wien and “Contemporary music” at the Hochschule
für Musik and Darstellende Kunst in Wien.