Curriculum

Matthias Fletzberger is considered a recognized specialist in German Romanticism and Viennese operetta.

His exceptional musical talent was discovered at a young age. At five years old, he was one of the youngest students ever at the Vienna University of Music and subsequently won numerous prestigious competitions, including Busoni (Bolzano, 1984), Rubinstein (Tel Aviv, 1986), Maria Callas (Athens, 1988), and Bösendorfer (Vienna, 1989). His intensive concert career as a pianist took him to all continents with around 1,000 performances within five years.

He made his debut as a conductor at the Vienna Festival, where the productions he led, „The Magic Flute“ and „La belle Hélène,“ were broadcast throughout Europe via Eurovision. Further significant engagements followed at the Prague State Opera and at the Theater St. Gallen (Switzerland).

After a ten-year hiatus from classical music from 2000 to 2010, Matthias Fletzberger returned to international opera and concert stages, initially as a pianist, chamber musician, and accompanist, and shortly thereafter as a conductor.

He captivates his audiences worldwide, including in America (New York/Lincoln Center, Los Angeles/Walt Disney Hall, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver), the Far East (Bunka Kaikan Tokyo, NCPA Beijing, Oriental Art Center Shanghai, Seoul Arts Center, Daegu Opera House), and Europe (Prague State Opera, Sofia Philharmonic, Vienna Musikverein).

In Seoul, he was the artistic and administrative director and conductor of the first „Ring of the Nibelungen“ in Korea in 2018–19 (directed by Achim Freyer). In 2020, he was the musical director of the Weinviertler Festival with Wagner's „Tristan und Isolde“ (with Martina Serafin, Hermine May, Günther Groissböck/René Pape, Thomas Johannes Mayer, among others) and „The Flying Dutchman“ (with Tomasz Konieczny). At the same time, he prepared the new production of Richard Strauss's ’Elektra„ at the Sofia National Opera. In the summer of 2021, he conducted, among other works, “Ariadne auf Naxos„ (with Camilla Nylund) and “Das Lied von der Erde„ (with Nadine Weissmann and Benjamin Bruns).

Since 2022, Fletzberger has been regularly active in Messina and, since 2025, has been the principal guest conductor of the Orchestra del Teatro Vittorio Emanuele Messina. Furthermore, he has been collaborating with the Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Opera in Mongolia for several years – most recently, in January 2026, he conducted a production of Mozart's „The Magic Flute“ there.

Orchestras, audiences and critics particularly emphasize his ability to work out the works of German Romanticism in an authentic and multicolored manner and to lead orchestras to amazing performances in the shortest possible time.