Since the 2008/2009 season, Weigle has been general music director of the Oper Frankfurt, succeeding Paolo Carignani. He conducted new productions of Daphne and Arabella by Richard Strauss, Korngold’s Die tote Stadt, Reimann’s Lear and Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauß, and he took over Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Beethovens Fidelio, and Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and Parsifal. He performed the four parts of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, staged by Vera Nemirova, finishing with Götterdämmerung in 2012. The complete cycle is to be performed twice in 2012. Singers have included Susan Bullock as Brünnhilde, Eva-Maria Westbroek as Sieglinde, Frank van Aken as Siegmund and Terje Stensvold as Wotan. Single performances were recorded. Gavin Dixon noted in his review of Die Walküre:

Weigle conducted a new production of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Bayreuth Festival in 2007, staged by Katharina Wagner, as well as repeated performances in the following years.

In 2003, he performed Die Frau ohne Schatten by Richard Strauss at the Oper Frankfurt with director Christof Nel and was named “Conductor of the Year” by the German magazine Opernwelt. He received the title again in 2005 and 2006. From 2004 to 2008 he was music director of the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.

In 1993 he became chief conductor of the National Youth Symphony Orchestra in Brandenburg and in 1997, principal conductor of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. He has performed at many opera houses, including the Semperoper, the Oper Frankfurt, the Vienna Volksoper, the Cincinnati Opera, the Vienna State Opera and the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Weigle studied at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in horn, piano and conducting. In 1987 he founded the Berlin Chamber Choir, and later he led the New Berlin Chamber Orchestra. He was principal horn player in the orchestra of the Berlin State Opera for 15 years. He also was a member of the jazz orchestra “Vielharmonie” in East Berlin.

Sebastian Weigle (born 1961, in East Berlin) is a German horn player and conductor. He is known for conducting the works of Richard Wagner in Bayreuth and the Oper Frankfurt.