This spring, Susanna Mälkki returns to the Metropolitan Opera to conduct Innocence, Kaija Saariaho’s final opera. The late, great Finnish composer was a close friend and collaborator of the conductor, and this relationship comes across in her deep understanding of the[…]

Susanna Mälkki starts 2026 in Barcelona, conducting Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, the immense dramatic-musical poem; an infinite song of love and death inspired by the medieval Celtic legend from the 12th century, compiled by Gottfried von Strassburg, which became one of[…]

Susanna Mälkki will dazzle the audience at Suntory Hall on October 11 and 12 with a contrasting spring-themed program, featuring Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral”, and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. The first piece takes the listeners on a journey in the[…]

Susanna Mälkki has been nominated in the Conductor category of this year’s International Opera Awards. Winners will be announced on November 13th, in a gala ceremony hosted by Greek National Opera at the Stavros Niarchos Hall.

This upcoming season, Susanna Mälkki returns to Helsinki to conduct the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra on September 17 and 18. The program features Berlioz’s lyric scene, Cléopâtre, who he considered to be the ultimate romantic, with mezzo Karen Deshayes breathing[…]