Local hire Michael Gassmann is leaving the fest after four years, it has been announced in Bonn.
His successor is to be Torger Nelson, who used to work at Washington National Opera and at the Met in New York.
Nelson, 45, has been in his present post with Wuppertal opera and orchestra for just over a year.
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