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Finnegan Downie Dear
Conductor
Biography
British conductor Finnegan Downie Dear enjoys an international career in both opera and symphonic music. A regular guest at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, he has conducted Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, The Makropulos Affair and The Turn of the Screw there. His other operatic engagements include The Magic Flute at the Royal Ballet and Opera, Eugene Onegin and Falstaff at the Hamburg State Opera, Billy Budd at the Opéra national de Lyon and Der Rosenkavalier at Garsington Opera.
In concert, he has conducted the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, the Bremer Philharmoniker and the Kammerakademie Potsdam. He has also toured with the Balthasar Neumann Orchestra, performing in Baden-Baden and at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.
He is Artistic Director of Shadwell Opera, a London-based company dedicated to contemporary British repertoire. In the 2026/27 season, he conducts Fidelio at the Semperoper Dresden and La bohème at Opera Australia.
Opéra national de Paris debut
Currently in
- Opéra Bastille
- from 28 January to 24 June 2027
