Michael Beyer

Biography

Pianist, stage, television and director of more than 250 major music programs for live television, theater casts, DVD/blu-ray and Internet Video Stream.

Personal Facts

Known For

Directing

Gender

male

Known Credits

75

Birth Place

Celle, Germany

Known For

• 

  Europiano (2/2) - The finest piano concertos from across Europe
• 

  Mahler Symphony 8 (Symphony Of A Thousand)
• 

  New Year's Concert 2026
• 

  From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2026
• 

  Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 'Leningrad' @ Gewandhaus, Leipzig
• 

  Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier @ Zurich Opera House

Credits

• directing (73 credits)

  • Europiano (2/2) - The finest piano concertos from across Europe

    director

    directing
    2026
  • Mahler Symphony 8 (Symphony Of A Thousand)

    director

    directing
    2026
  • New Year's Concert 2026

    director

    directing
    2026
  • From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2026

    director

    directing
    2026
  • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 'Leningrad' @ Gewandhaus, Leipzig

    director

    directing
    2025
  • Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier @ Zurich Opera House

    director

    directing
    2025
  • The New York Philharmonic Orchestra in Pyongyang Great moments in music

    director

    directing
    2025
  • Beatrice Rana @ Lucerne Festival 2025

    director

    directing
    2025
  • Petr Popelka & Czech Philharmonic Orchestra with Antoine Tamestit & Josef Špaček

    director

    directing
    2024
  • Charles Gounod: Roméo et Juliette - Opernhaus Zürich

    director

    directing
    2023
  • Claudio Abbado and Maurizio Pollini at Lucerne Festival 2004

    director

    directing
    2022
  • Puccini: Il trittico

    director

    directing
    2022
  • John Cranko: The Taming of the Shrew @ Stuttgart Ballet

    director

    directing
    2022
  • Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty

    director

    directing
    2022
  • Hope for Peace Concert from the Frauenkirche - Dresden

    director

    directing
    2022
  • Williams: Violin Concerto No. 2 & Selected Film Themes

    director

    directing
    2022
  • Kissin performs Gershwin, Berg and Chopin Salzburg Festival 2021

    director

    directing
    2022
  • Leif Ove Andsnes plays Mozart

    director

    directing
    2022
  • New Year's Concert 2022

    director

    directing
    2022
  • Parsifal

    director

    directing
    2021
  • John Williams: The Berlin Concert

    director

    directing
    2021
  • Der Freischütz, Konzerthaus Berlin

    director

    directing
    2021
  • Salzburg Festival 2021: Currentzis conducts Mozart

    director

    directing
    2021
  • Winterreise

    director

    directing
    2021
  • Christian Spuck: “Winterreise” Ballet de Zurich

    director

    directing
    2021
  • 250 Jahre Ludwig van Beethoven - Das Jubiläumskonzert aus der Oper Bonn

    director

    directing
    2020
  • Orphée aux Enfers - Salzburger Festspiele 2019

    director

    directing
    2020
  • Così fan tutte - Salzburger Festspiele 2020

    director

    directing
    2020
  • Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet

    director

    directing
    2020
  • John Williams: Live in Vienna

    director

    directing
    2020
  • Leonard Bernstein Mass

    director

    directing
    2020
  • Universe, Incomplete

    director

    directing
    2019
  • Lohengrin

    director

    directing
    2019
  • The Cleveland Orchestra Centennial Celebration

    director

    directing
    2018
  • The Nutcracker

    director

    directing
    2018
  • Dvořák: From the New World

    director

    directing
    2018
  • Onegin

    director

    directing
    2017
  • Schumann - Scenes from Goethe's Faust

    director

    directing
    2017
  • Aida - Verdi - Salzburg Festival

    director

    directing
    2017
  • Tango under the Stars - Gustavo Dudamel

    director

    directing
    2017
  • Wagner: Parsifal

    director

    directing
    2017
  • Mariss Jansons conducts: Dvořák – Stabat Mater

    director

    directing
    2016
  • Alban Berg - Wozzeck

    director

    directing
    2016
  • A John Williams Celebration

    director

    directing
    2015
  • Berg: Lulu

    director

    directing
    2015
  • Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 2015

    director

    directing
    2015
  • Mariss Jansons dirige Dvorak & Mussorgsky

    director

    directing
    2015
  • Swan Lake

    director

    directing
    2014
  • New Year's Concert 2014

    director

    directing
    2014
  • Mozart Requiem - Claudio Abbado & Lucerne Festival Orchestra

    director

    directing
    2013
  • Berliner Philharmoniker in Singapur - A Musical Journey in 3D

    director

    directing
    2011
  • Hoffmanns Erzählungen

    director

    directing
    2011
  • Salzburg Festival Opening Concert

    director

    directing
    2011
  • Beethoven · Missa Solemnis (Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann)

    director

    directing
    2011
  • Mahler Symphony No. 9 (Lucerne Festival)

    director

    directing
    2011
  • Lucerne Festival 2011: Claudio Abbado conducts Bruckner's Symphony No. 5

    director

    directing
    2011
  • Joshua Bell - Nobel Prize Concert

    director

    directing
    2010
  • Salzburg Festival Opening Concert 2009 with Nikolaus Harnoncourt

    director

    directing
    2010
  • Lucerne Festival: Mahler: Symphony No. 1; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.3

    director

    directing
    2010
  • New Year's Concert 2010

    director

    directing
    2010
  • Barenboim The Warsaw Recital

    director

    directing
    2010
  • Tristan und Isolde

    director

    directing
    2009
  • Abbado Conducts Mahler No. 1 & Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3

    director

    directing
    2009
  • Bach - Goldberg Variations BWV 988 - Evgeni Koroliov

    director

    directing
    2008
  • The Pyongyang Concert - New York Philharmonic & Lorin Maazel

    director

    directing
    2008
  • Europakonzert 2008 from Moscow

    director

    directing
    2008
  • Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 Resurrection

    director

    directing
    2007
  • Daniel Barenboim: Beethoven - Piano Concertos 1-5

    director

    directing
    2007
  • Claudio Abbado und Alfred Brendel - Beethovens Klavierkonzert Nr. 3 und Bruckners Sinfonie Nr. 7

    director

    directing
    2006
  • Lucerne Festival: Mahler: Symphony No. 7

    director

    directing
    2006
  • Alfred Brendel and Claudio Abbado @ Lucerne Festival 2005

    director

    directing
    2005
  • Abbado in Lucerne 2003

    director

    directing
    2003
  • Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte

    director

    directing
    2002

• camera (2 credits)

  • Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty

    director of photography

    camera
    2022
  • Through the Eyes of Yuga Wang

    video report

    camera
    2018