Sebastian Weigle has been principal conductor of the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo since the 2019 season, and will conduct in 2023/24 Eisler's German Symphony, Stravinsky's Firebird, Beethoven's Pastoral, Schumann's Frühlingssinfonie, Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra and Elektra in concert. Other concerts will take him to the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra with Das Lied von der Erde, the Oslo Philharmonic with Brahms' German Requiem, and the Copenhagen Philharmonic with Brahms' 2nd Symphony.

In the opera world, he will return to the Vienna State Opera with Strauss' Daphne, and to the Bavarian State Opera with Wagner's Tannhäuser. At the Deutsche Oper Berlin, he will lead the new production of Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame.

After several highly successful productions at Oper Frankfurt – including Die Frau ohne Schatten, which brought him the nomination for Conductor of the Year of the prestigious journal Opernwelt in 2003 – Sebastian Weigle became Music Director at the beginning of the 2008/09 season, a post he will hold until 2022/23. In his last season in Frankfurt, he conducted the new productions of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, R. Stephan's Die ersten Menschen, and Strauss' Elektra. From 2004 to 2009, he was also Music Director at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona where, in 2005, his Parsifal was awarded Best Production of the Year, and in 2006, Mr. Weigle himself was awarded Conductor of the Year based on his conducting of Die tote Stadt. In the summer of 2007, he made his debut at the Bayreuther Festspiele with a new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.

His many guest engagements have taken him to the opera houses of Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Dresden, Zurich, and Mannheim, to the Wiener Staatsoper as well as the Volksoper, the New York Metropolitan Opera, and Tokyo. On concert stages he has conducted renowned orchestras such as the Radio Orchestras of Berlin, Munich, Vienna, and Stuttgart, the Bamberger Symphoniker, and all the major Scandinavian orchestras. Mr. Weigle has conducted worldwide, giving concerts in such cities as Tokyo, Chicago, and Melbourne.

Several CD recordings capture his work on Beethoven, Mozart, Rott, and many other composers. In 2012, his Ring des Nibelungen production of the Oper Frankfurt appeared on DVD (Oehms-Classic).

Born in 1961 in Berlin, Sebastian Weigle studied horn, piano, and conducting at the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler, and was appointed Principal Horn of the Staatskapelle Berlin in 1982. In 1987, he founded the Chamber Choir Berlin, and was Artistic Director of Neues Berliner Kammerorchester. He later became Music Director of the Junge Philharmonie Brandenburg, in 1997. From 1997 to 2002, he was Staatskapellmeister at the Berliner Staatsoper.