Dan Ettinger

Ettinger was descended from Romanian immigrants to Israel — his father and grandmother are Holocaust survivors — and he grew up in the Tel Aviv suburb of Holon.[2] Ettinger began taking piano lessons at the age of five.[3] He received his musical training at the Thelma Yellin High School for the Arts in Givatayim.[4] Ettinger made a career as a baritone at the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, until he was offered a position as choir director.[4] From 2002 to 2003, he was co-principal guest conductor of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and conducted works such as Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, Mahler's 4th Symphony and Mozart's Requiem.[5][3]

From 2003 to 2009 Ettinger was Daniel Barenboim's assistant and Kapellmeister at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin[3] and he was Generalmusikdirektor of the Mannheim National Theatre from 2009 to 2016.[6]

From 2005 to 2012 and again since 2018, Ettinger has been chief conductor of the Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion and music director of the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv.[3] He became principal conductor of the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra in 2015.[7] His current Stuttgart contract is through 2023.[8][3][9] He made numerous opera guest performances from Covent Garden in London to the Vienna State Opera to the Metropolitan Opera in New York.[9]

• Official website
• Hilbert Artists Management, German-language page on Dan Ettinger
• America-Israel Cultural Foundation page on Dan Ettinger
• Stuttgart Philharmonic German-language page on Dan Ettinger
• Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra page on Dan Ettinger
• Royal Opera House page on Dan Ettinger