David Bates
Artistic Director

David Bates initially embarked on a professional singing career before turning to directing/conducting. He founded La Nuova Musica (LNM) in 2007.

Highlights this season away from LNM include his debut with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century in the Netherlands and returning to the Komische Oper Berlin for Handel Hercules. Looking ahead his plans include further titles at the Komische Oper Berlin and Opéra de Rouen Normandie and his debut at the Theater an der Wien. 

Last season he conducted Alcina at Staatsoper Hannover, where he also conducted a new production of Monteverdi Orfeo; made his debut with Opéra de Rouen Normandie with Handel Serse and conducted a new production of Handel Saul at the Komische Oper Berlin. He also directed a programme of Mozart and Beethoven with the Munich Symphony Orchestra.

Directing from the harpsichord, David’s previous opera productions have included Rinaldo for Glyndebourne on Tour; Cesti Orontea at the Innsbrucker Festwochen; Cavalli La Calisto for Cincinnati Opera; Iphigénie en Tauride at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon and Vivaldi Farnace at the Spoleto Festival in the United States.