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

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

In the 2024/25 season, he will conduct new productions of Madama Butterfly at Linz State Theater, Le comte Ory at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris and Der fliegende Holländer in the first Wagner production of the Opera in the Quarry, Europe’s largest natural stage in St. Margarethen. He will conduct 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. He will also conduct an opera gala at the Opéra National de Paris, as well as the WDR Radio Orchestra’s New Year’s Concert. In symphonic concerts, he will conduct 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 the Paris Opera for Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges and Ma mère l’oye, as well as for 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 led a new production of Eugene Onegin. On the concert podium, he performed with the West German Radio Orchestra in Cologne, the Jena Philharmonic, the Sinfonica Madrid, and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.

In 2022/23, Patrick Lange returned to the Vienna State Opera for Die Fledermaus and the ballets Sleeping Beauty and In Seventh Heaven. He also returned to the Paris Opera, conducting Stravinsky’s The Firebird and Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. He was also at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein for Vasily Barkhatov’s new production of Der fliegende Holländer, had the musical direction of 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 Wiesbaden from 2017 to 2022. During this time, he led 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 for his adaptation of The Magic Flute for children.

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

In 2010 he gave his debut at the Vienna State Opera and has been a regular guest there ever since. Further engagements have taken him to the Semperoper Dresden, the Royal Opera House in London, the Hamburg State Opera, Opera Australia in Sydney, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Zurich Opera House, the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, the Korean National Opera in Seoul, the Stuttgart State Opera, the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg and the Frankfurt Opera, among others. He debuted with great success at the Opéra national de Paris with Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde (choreography: John Neumeier) and has since conducted there regularly.

Patrick Lange has also worked with orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria, the Hamburg and Bamberg Symphonies, the Essen Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, as well as 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 RSO, and several times with the German Federal Youth Orchestra, with which he is closely associated.

Born near Nuremberg, 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 conservatories in Würzburg and Zurich. In 2005 he was accepted into the Conductors’ Forum program of the German Music Council and was appointed assistant conductor of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra by Claudio Abbado. From 2005 to 2009, Patrick Lange assisted not only Claudio Abbado but also 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 was awarded the European Culture Prize in the category Promotional Prize for Young Conductors, and in 2009 he received the Eugen Jochum Scholarship of the BR Symphony Orchestra, which was awarded for the first time.

Recordings are available on the market with clarinetist Shirley Brill (Orchestre de Chambre Genève, La Dolce Volta) and tenors Pavol Breslik (Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Orfeo) and Maximilian Schmitt (WDR-Sinfonieorchester, Oehms-Classics).

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