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La fille aux cheveux de lin

“The real sensation was the sound of Mozart that Louis Lohraseb elicited from the [Staatsoper Hamburg Orchestra]…With Louis Lohraseb, Mozart sighs more clearly than elsewhere and it is not so easy to decipher how the young conductor managed to do this. The secret: No dogmas, please. For Lohraseb, it’s about everyone involved showing pure emotions. Every one of his gestures was inviting and the result was an attentive sound that the singers could really adapt to.”

Klassik begeistert

“In the pit, Louis Lohraseb did a masterful job of keeping his excellent orchestra in sync with the principal singers and chorus”

Opera Magazine

“….led by the polished conductor Louis Lohraseb, whose expressive, inviting gestures clearly inspired the players.”

Opera News

“Rossini’s music, with its ever-shifting clockwork of tempos, soaring vocal lines, and mountainous crescendos, requires a cast of the most technically adroit singers…Conductor Louis Lohraseb…imbued the performance with patter perfection.”

SF Classical Voice

“Very luckily Louis Lohraseb, a recent alumnus of our young artists program, was pressed into service for his mainstage debut. Already with a list of impressive credits for someone so young it was apparent from his entrance into the pit that he’s also a favorite with the orchestra and he proved immediately why. The LA Opera Orchestra veritably erupted and sparkled under his sure-handed guidance. He made deft work of highlighting Puccini’s kaleidoscopic orchestrations and showed a keen understanding of the works musical architecture as well as providing excellent support for his singers. “

Parterre

“…we dare say that the current revival under the skillful wand of the astonishingly young Louis Lohraseb and starring the powerful triumvirate of Angel Blue as Tosca, Michael Fabiano as Cavaradossi, and Ryan McKinny as Scarpia is even more thrilling than before.”

Indulge Magazine

Since his professional debut at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in 2019, Louis Lohraseb has quickly established himself as an exciting young conductor on the international stage, with subsequent appearances at the Semperoper Dresden, Los Angeles Opera, Staatsoper Hamburg, and Komische Oper Berlin. Whether in Rossini “imbued with patter perfection” (SF Classical Voice, LA Opera), or in Mozart that “…sighs more clearly than elsewhere… showing pure emotions. Every one of his gestures was inviting and the result was an attentive sound that the singers could really adapt to” (Klassik begeistert, Staatsoper Hamburg), Lohraseb is charting a career grounded in the joyful sharing of tradition and a sincere commitment to musical storytelling.

On the heels of his fall 2024 debut (Alcina), Lohraseb returns to Rice University for Die Zauberflöte, and makes his debut with San Diego Opera in Carmen. These engagements follow his Central City Opera debut with Il Barbiere di Siviglia, which Opera Magazine praised for Lohraseb’s “masterful job of keeping his excellent orchestra in sync with the principal singers and chorus,” as well as concerts with the Skaneateles Festival Orchestra and Colorado Springs Philharmonic.

Following his Los Angeles Opera mainstage debut conducting Tosca, Lohraseb was immediately re-engaged for Il Barbiere di Siviglia and La Traviata. Elsewhere in 2023-24, he debuted at Staatsoper Hamburg (Le Nozze di Figaro), San Francisco Opera (Schwabacher Scenes Concerts, Merola Opera Program) and Atlanta Opera (A Midsummer Night’s Dream); and with the Oakland and Peoria symphonies and Wintergreen Music Festival. Recent seasons have included Semperoper Dresden (Carmen); Komische Oper Berlin (La Traviata); Opera Sarasota (Nozze; Thérèse); Carmen, La Rondine and Don Giovanni at Indiana University Opera Theatre; and gala concerts with Yale Opera and Summer Opera Tel Aviv.

An accomplished pianist, Lohraseb is a regular recital and chamber music partner collaborating with such artists as Erica Petrocelli, Liv Redpath, Charles Castronovo, Taylor Raven, Eric Silberger, Madalyn Parnas, and Cicely Parnas. He studied piano with Findlay Cockrell and Kevin Murphy, and harpsichord and theory with William Carragan.

Lohraseb was a recipient of the prestigious Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award in 2022, and he includes among his mentors Lorin Maazel, James Conlon, Arthur Fagen, and Kevin Murphy. An alumnus of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program at the Los Angeles Opera, he has served as assistant conductor to music director James Conlon for numerous productions since 2017 at the Los Angeles Opera and the Ravinia Festival with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In recognition of his work at Los Angeles Opera, Lohraseb received the Eva and Marc Stein Artist Award in 2024.

Born to Iranian and Italian parents, Lohraseb was graduated summa cum laude from SUNY Geneseo, where he was an Edgar Fellow. He has been a Conducting Fellow at the Yale School of Music, where he studied with Shinik Hahm and served as assistant conductor to Peter Oundjian, John Adams, and Krzysztof Penderecki, among others; with additional post-graduate coursework at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

SEPTEMBER 2025