Felix Krieger founded the Berlin Opera Group in 2010 and has been its artistic director ever since. He was a junior piano student at the conservatory in his home town of Freiburg i.Br. before studying conducting in Hamburg and with Carlo Maria Giulini in Fiesole (Italy). He began his career as Claudio Abbado’s assistant with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and has since conducted numerous major orchestras, including the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris and the London Sinfonietta.
Guest conducting engagements have taken him to major opera houses such as the Staatsoper Berlin, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Semperoper and the Opéra National de Paris. In 2018, Sony Classical released his album with works by the Spanish composer Benet Casablancas. Benet Casablancas, played by the London Sinfonietta. With the Berlin Opera Group, he also released the complete recording of Mascagni’s Iris in 2021.