Alan Gilbert is Principal Guest Conductor of TMSO, Principal Conductor of NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Music Director of Royal Swedish Opera, and Conductor Laureate of Royal Stockholm Philharmonic. He was also Music Director of New York Philharmonic between 2009 and 2017. Gilbert makes regular guest appearances with orchestras including Berliner Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Orchestre de Paris, Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Symphony, and Philadelphia Orchestra. He has appeared at Metropolitan Opera, LA Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Semperoper, and Opernhaus Zürich, among others.

The Swedish soprano Elin Rombo has last season appeared in the role of Roxana in King Rogerboth at Teatr Wielki in Warsaw and at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm. Elin has also sungHanna Glawari in Die Lustige Witwe and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, both at the RoyalSwedish Opera. This season include Cunégonde in Bernstein’s Candide in Stockholm and Roxana in King Roger at the Czech National Theatre in Prague.

Elin Rombo has previously been a guest at the Opéra National de Paris where she has sung Anicia Eritea in Cavalli’s Eliogabalo. She has also appeared as The Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte at Staatsoper Berlin and as Agnès in George Benjamin’s Written on Skin at the Netherlands Opera and at the Royal Swedish Opera. Elin has appeared as Cunégonde in Candide, as well as in AscheMOND oder The Fairy Queen at Staatsoper Berlin and she has sung Adina in L’elisir d’amore at the Göteborg Opera.

Elin Rombo's appearances at the Royal Swedish Opera have included Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, Donna Elvira, Blanche in Dialogues des Carmélites, Musetta in La Bohème, Fiordiligi in Così fan Tutte, Mimì in La Bohème, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro and the young
Batsheba in the world premiere of Sven-David Sandström’s Batsheba.

Elin Rombo made her Salzburg Festival debut in the summer of 2009, singing 1st soprano in Luigi Nono’s Al gran sole carico d’amore under the baton of Ingo Metzmacher and later appeared in the Deutsche Staatsoper revival at Kraftwerk Berlin. She has sung Leila in Les Pêcheurs de Perles at Folkoperan, Stockholm, Timante in Floridante at the Handel Festival in Halle, Zerlina in Don Giovanni with the Mattei Festival in Sweden, with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Daniel Harding and she appeared in the world premiere of Wolfgang Rihm’s Dionysus in Salzburg and Staatsoper Berlin. Her roles at the Frankfurt Opera have included Servilia in La clemenza di Tito, Clorinda in La Cenerentola, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte and Corinna in Il viaggio a Reims.

On the concert platform Elin Rombo has appeared under the baton of Riccardo Muti in Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem (Chicago Symphony Orchestra) and Schubert’s Mass No 2 in G major (Saint Denis Festival/Orchestre de Paris). In the spring of 2012 she returned to Saint Denis to sing Mozart's Requiem with Orchestre de Paris and Sir Colin Davis. She has sang Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher in Salzburg, Mozart's C Minor Mass with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra as well as with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and toured with renowned Swedish choir Orphei Drängar in China, Japan and Singapore.

Elin Rombo studied at the Brandon University Queen Elisabeth II in Canada and the University College of Opera in Stockholm, where she graduated in 2003. Already during her studies she made her debut as Christa in The Makropoulos Case at the Royal Swedish Opera. In 2009 Elin Rombo received the prestigious Birgit Nilsson Scholarship. In November 2013 she was named Court Singer and in 2016 she was awarded the medal Litteris et Artibus by the Swedish King.

As much at home on the opera stage as she is in concert hall, Rinat Shaham has portrayed Carmen in over 45 productions worldwide including Vienna, Rome, Berlin, Munich and New York and has collaborated with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Christoph Eschenbach, Christian Thielemann and Alan Gilbert.

Her concert work has seen her perform the role of Judith in Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle including in Vienna and Barcelona and this autumn sees her stage debut in this role with the Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, a role that she will also record with Karina Canellakis and the Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra. She has also sung Bernstein in Hamburg and Vienna, Purcell in Helsinki, and is a regular collaborator at the Teatro del Liceu, Barcelona. She returns to Barcelona in 2023 in Marina Abramovic’s The Seven Deaths of Maria Callas.

Swedish tenor Michael Weinius, winner of Seattle Opera’s International Wagner Competition in 2008, has rapidly established himself as one of the leading heldentenors of our time.

He made his professional debut in 1993 as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte and thereafter sang a large number of baritone roles, before making the transition to tenor in 2004, with Laca in Jenufa beeing the first tenor role.
Since then he has performed at many leading opera houses in Europe. Among engagements to be mentioned are Parsifal for Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Finnish National Opera and the Royal Swedish Opera, Siegmund for Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Nationaltheater Mannheim and Royal Swedish Opera, Hans Schwalb in Mathis der Maler conducted by Christoph Eschenbach at Opera de Bastille in Paris, Lohengrin at Wiener Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin and Stockholm, as well as highlights from Lohengrin in Baden-Baden with Christian Thielemann, Tristan at the Royal opera in Stockholm, Staatstheater Kassel and ROH Covent Garden, Siegfried in both Siegfried and Götterdämmerung in Geneva, Düsseldorf and Leipzig.
He has collaborated with distinguished conductors such as Gustavo Dudamel, Christoph Eschenbach, Alan Gilbert, Marek Janowski, Axel Kober, Kent Nagano, Donald Runnicles, Esa Pekka Salonen and Christian Thielemann.
Michael Weinius also appears regularly on the concert stage, perfoming works such as Gurrelieder by Schönberg, Beethovens 9th symphony, Mahler´s Das Lied von der Erde and The Dream of Gerontius by Elgar.
In 2013 Michael Weinius received from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf the honorable title of Court Singer.

Bass Morris Robinson has performed with many of the world’s leading opera companies including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Dallas Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Teatro alla Scala, and the Aix-en-Provence Festival. Also a prolific concert singer, Mr. Robinson has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, and at the BBC Proms and the Ravinia, Mostly Mozart, Tanglewood, Cincinnati May, Verbier, and Aspen festivals. He also appeared in Carnegie Hall as part of Jessye Norman’s HONOR! Festival. In recital he has been presented by Spivey Hall in Atlanta, the Savannah Music Festival, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Mr. Robinson’s first album, Going Home, was released by Decca. He is also a featured artist on the LA Philharmonic’s recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 which won the 2022 GRAMMY Awards for Best Choral Performance. An Atlanta native, Mr. Robinson is a graduate of The Citadel and is an alumnus of the Metropolitan Lindemann Young Artists Program. He is currently Artistic Advisor to the Cincinnati Opera.

Nikikai Chorus Group, the first professional chorus group in Japan, was established in 1953. Centering its activities in opera performances, Nikikai Chorus Group also makes guest appearances with major orchestras, gives original concerts and performs in schools. The chorus appears regularly with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra at concerts of Beethoven’s Symphony No.9.