Raiders of the Lost Ark in Concert

Constantine Kitsopoulos has established himself as a dynamic conductor known for his ability to work in many genres and settings. He is equally at home with opera, symphonic repertoire, film with live orchestra, music theatre, and composition. His work has taken him worldwide, where he has conducted the major orchestras of North America, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and the Tokyo Philharmonic.

During the 2023-24 Season, Constantine conducts return engagements with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Pacific, New Jersey, Toronto, Detroit, Chicago, Santa Barbara, and San Francisco Symphonies.

Highlights of previous seasons include return engagements with the Houston, Dallas, Detroit, Phoenix, New Jersey, San Francisco, Toronto and, Vancouver Symphonies, and the New York Philharmonic. He also conducted Leonard Bernstein’s Mass and Candide at Indiana University Opera Theatre.

In addition to Constantine’s engagements as guest conductor, he was music director of the Festival of the Arts Boca from 2010 until 2023 and general director of Chatham Opera, 2005 to 2015. He was assistant chorus master at New York City Opera from 1984 to 1989.

Constantine has developed semi-staged productions of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, for which he has written a new translation, Don Giovanni, and La bohème. He has conducted IU Opera Theatre’s productions of Mass, Falstaff, Die Fledermaus, A View from the Bridge, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Most Happy Fella, South Pacific, Oklahoma, The Music Man, and The Last Savage. He will return this season to conduct Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd.

On Broadway, Constantine has been music director of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess (cast album on PS Classics), A Catered Affair (cast album on PS Classics), Coram Boy, Baz Luhrmann’s production of Puccini’s La bohème (cast album on DreamWorks Records), Swan Lake, and Les Misérables. He was music director of ACT’s production of Weill/Brecht’s Happy End and conducted the only English-language recording of the piece for Sh-K-Boom Records.

Constantine studied piano with Marienka Michna, Chandler Gregg, Edward Edson, and Sophia Rosoff. He studied conducting with Semyon Bychkov, Sergiu Commissiona, Gustav Meier, and his principal teacher, Vincent La Selva.