Christoph Altstaedt made his debut at the 2025 Bregenz Festival conducting the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in Philipp Stölzl’s production of Weber’s Der Freischütz at the Seebühne Bregenz. Other recent highlights include performances of Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer at Cologne Opera (new staging by Benjamin Lazar), featuring the Gürzenich Orchester. Last season, Altstaedt returned to the Vienna State Opera to conduct their staged production of Tchaikovsky’s Pathetique symphony. This follows his superb debut there in 2023 conducting Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten which featured choreography by Martin Schläpfer, with whom Altstaedt has developed a strong partnership since they first worked together during his tenure as Kapellmeister at Deutsche Oper am Rhein. 

Altstaedt remains a very popular guest at Vienna Volksoper, where he returns this season to conduct their production of Marie Antoinette (music by Haydn, Gluck, Lully). In recent seasons, he has also conducted Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem, as well as the premiere and revival runs of The Moon Wears a White Shirt (music by Schnittke, Ligeti, Locatelli). 

Recent and future symphonic highlights include Gürzenich Orchester, Munich Radio Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, Dortmund Philharmonic, Ulster Orchestra, and Cologne’s WDR Funkhausorchester. Altstaedt has conducted gala concerts with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, as well as multiple programmes with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, including London subscription concerts, regional tours, and their annual Handel’s Messiah at the Royal Albert Hall. Highly regarded for his stylistic interpretations of classical repertoire, Altstaedt conducted the Academy of Ancient Music’s European tour with repertoire including Beethoven and Friedrich Witt, featuring soprano Chen Reiss. 

His extensive operatic experience includes productions at Finnish National Opera (Così fan tutte), Glyndebourne on Tour (La Traviata, and David McVicar’s production of Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Opera North (Hansel and Gretel, Don Giovanni), Theater Basel (Die Zauberflöte), and Die Entführung aus dem Serail at Savonlinna Opera Festival and Opera Zürich.