Ivan Repušić

Biography

The Croatian conductor Ivan Repušić is General Music Director of the Leipzig Opera as well as Chief Conductor of the Staatskapelle Weimar and the Munich Radio Orchestra. He previously served as Principal Guest Conductor of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he led well over 100 performances.
His international engagements have taken him to major houses such as the New National Theatre Tokyo, Zurich Opera House, Semperoper Dresden, Hamburg State Opera, Berlin State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Komische Oper Berlin, and he regularly appears at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
As a concert conductor, Ivan Repušić has worked with orchestras including the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Slovenian Philharmonic, Orchestre Régional de Cannes, Norwegian National Opera Orchestra, Orchestra Verdi di Milano, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bavarian State Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Bremer Philharmoniker, Hanover State Symphony Orchestra, and the Staatskapelle Weimar. In Croatia, he has conducted all the country’s major orchestras and opera ensembles.
From 2004 to 2016, he taught at the Academy of Arts of the University of Split, where he was appointed Associate Professor. For his artistic achievements he has received numerous honours, including the Vladimir Nazor Prize, the Vatroslav Lisinski Prize, the Milka Trnina Prize, the Orlando Prize, and the Prize of the City of Zadar. In 2021, the University of Zadar awarded him an honorary doctorate in recognition of his outstanding contributions to cultural and artistic life.
Born in Croatia in 1978, Ivan Repušić studied conducting at the Zagreb Academy of Music with Igor Gjadrov and Vjekoslav Šutej.