British conductor Alexander Soddy was General Music Director of the Mannheim National Theater from the 2016/17 to the 2021/22 season, where his programmatic focus has been on the core German and Italian opera repertoire covering nearly all the major Wagner, Strauss and Verdi operas. In his final season as GMD in Mannheim, he led new productions of Tristan und Isolde and Der Ring des Nibelungen, as well as revivals of The Flying Dutchman and Hänsel und Gretel. In the 2022/23 season he remains closely associated with the Mannheim National Theatre and its orchestra, taking the theatre’s production of Der Ring on tour to South Korea, and staying on as Artistic Director of the city’s Akademiekonzerte, as a part of which he conducted a complete cycle of the Bruckner Symphonies.