Exception, talent, Wunderkind. These are the first associations when the Finn Klaus Mäkelä (*1996) is described. For hardly any musical profession in the classical music scene is more associated with maturity than that of a conductor. Therefore, Mäkelä’s appearance on the stages of this world turns many things upside down. Young, thoughtful, lively and with an impressive presence, the conductor has dedicated himself to music. At the age of less than 30, he has reached the top of several renowned orchestras: chief conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, music director of the Orchestre de Paris and future chief conductor of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra. Although he will not assume this post until 2027, he is already familiarising himself with the musicians as Artistic Partner. He can also be heard as a guest conductor with the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony and New York Philharmonic.
The large footprints of his predecessors – von Karajan, Sir Solti, Barenboim, Järvi and Harding, to name but a few – do not seem to frighten him in any way. Rather, he wants to explore his own experiences and feelings through the music and, equally, to allow the audience to do the same. So Klaus Mäkelä is a conductor who is sure to make a big impact in the future!

Born in scenic and music-loving Lucerne, Mauro Peter (1987*) is at home in the lyric tenor repertoire. As a child he sang with the Lucerne Boys’ Choir and began his studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich in 2008.
In 2012 Peter won the Robert Schumann Competition for himself and in the same year made his debuts at the Schubertiade and as part of the Young Singers Project at the Salzburg Festival. Since then he has returned regularly to the Festival stages. In addition to his permanent position at the Zurich Opera House, his tours in the following years have taken him to the Vienna Musikverein, the Munich Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam as well as the Pierre Boulez Saal and the Konzerthaus in Berlin.
Mauro Peter’s extensive repertoire includes both intimate lied singing and grand opera. The Swiss tenor has already worked with the great conductors Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Zubin Mehta, Fabio Luisi, Gustavo Dudamel, Iván Fischer, John Eliot Gardiner and Teodor Currentzis. In lieder, Peter performs with the pianist Helmut Deutsch.

René Pape is a German opera singer born September 4, 1964 in Dresden. René Pape began studying music and singing at the age of 8 in the boys’ choir of the Holy Cross Church in Dresden. Then René Pape continued his apprenticeship at the Dresden Conservatory. René Pape made his debut at the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden in 1988, and gained dazzling international recognition in 1991, when Sir Georg Solti gave him the role of Sarastro in a production of The Magic Flute, a role he sang again. the same year at La Scala in Milan under the direction of the same conductor. René Pape performs regularly in major opera houses, concert halls and symphony orchestras around the world, as well as opera festivals such as Bayreuth, Glyndebourne, Lucerne, Orange, Salzburg, where he is conducted by the greatest conductors of orchestra.