Hermes Helfricht

Hermes Helfricht has worked with a wide variety of European orchestras covering a broad repertoire from Baroque to several world premieres in contemporary music. Since 2018/19 Helfricht has been working as 1st Kapellmeister at the Bonn Opera. So far, his talents have been honoured with three international conducting awards. Current projects at the Bonn Opera include a new production of Verdi’s Don Carlo in fall 2021 as well as Frankenstein’s Li Tai Pe, set to premiere in spring 2022. Helfricht was born in Radebeul in 1992, a small town near the baroque city of Dresden with its deeply rooted tradition of romantic music especially from Wagner and Strauss. Already from a young age his musical talent started to evolve as a pianist. For nine years during his adolescence, he was a member of the