Tilman Michael

Tilman Michael (born 1975) is a German choral conductor. He has been choral conductor at Oper Frankfurt since 2014. There and in his previous position at the Nationaltheater Mannheim he led the opera chorus to be voted opera chorus of the year by the critics from Opernwelt. He is appointed to lead the chorus of the Metropolitan Opera from the 2024/25 season.

Career Michael was born 1975 in Stuttgart. He was a member of the boys' choir Collegium Iuvenum there in the early 1990s.

From 2014, Michael was choral conductor at the Oper Frankfurt, achieving the distinction Opera choir of the year several times,

Michael was assistant choral conductor at the Bayreuth Festival for ten years. He has prepared choirs at leading companies of the world such as Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, Semperoper in Dresden, Staatstheater Stuttgart, in Moscow and Vienna,

Michael also worked with the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, and with radio choirs including the , MDR Rundfunkchor, NDR Chor, and WDR Rundfunkchor Köln. He performed with vocal ensembles in churches and leading concert halls of 25 countries, Michael conducted world premieres of music by Adriana Hölszky, Bernhard Lang, Olga Neuwirth and Salvatore Sciarrino. He was a guest conductor at the for Bach's Christmas Oratorio who retired at age 75 after 17 seasons with the company.