Constantine Kitsopoulos

Constantine Kitsopoulos has established himself as a dynamic conductor known for his ability to work in many different genres and settings. He is equally at home with opera, symphonic repertoire, film with live orchestra, music theater, and composition. His work has taken him worldwide, where he has conducted the major orchestras of North America, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and the Tokyo Philharmonic.

The 2025–2026 season will bring Maestro Kitsopoulos back for return engagements with the New York Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony, and New Jersey Symphony, among others.

In the past two seasons, Maestro Kitsopoulos conducted return engagements with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Pacific, New Jersey, Toronto, Detroit, Chicago, Santa Barbara, and San Francisco symphonies. Highlights of previous seasons include return engagements with the Dallas Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Houston Symphony, and Vancouver Symphony. Kitsopoulos also conducted Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, and Leonard Bernstein’s Mass and Candide at Indiana University Opera Theater.

In addition to Maestro Kitsopoulos’s engagements as guest conductor, he was music director of the Festival of the Arts Boca from 2010 until 2023 and general director of Chatham Opera between 2005 and 2015. He was assistant chorus master at New York City Opera from 1984 to 1989.

Maestro Kitsopoulos has developed semi-staged productions of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, for which he has written a new translation, Don Giovanni, and La bohème. He has conducted IU Opera Theater’s productions of Mass, Falstaff, Die Fledermaus, A View from the Bridge, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Most Happy Fella, South Pacific, Oklahoma!, The Music Man, and The Last Savage.