Vienna-born conductor Katharina Müllner serves as Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. There, during the current 2026/27 season, she will conduct the premiere of "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny", as well as revivals of "Madama Butterfly", "Tosca", "La Traviata", “Hansel and Gretel,” “Le nozze di Figaro” and “Carmen.”
She will make her debut at the Zurich Opera with “Le nozze di Figaro.” She will also return as a guest conductor to the Cologne Opera, the Semperoper Dresden, and the Hamburg State Opera (for the premiere of Henze’s “El Cimarrón” and the ballet “Fast Forward”).
In the 2025–26 season, concert engagements will take her for the first time to the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento and the Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra; she will also return to the podium with the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra.
In 2025/26 she conducted Le nozze di Figaro, Die Fledermaus, Carmen, Nabucco, Anatevka, La Cenerentola and the ballets Soirée Ravel and Signaturen at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. In addition she lead performances of The Magic Flute at Oper Köln and Semperoper Dresden, as well as Don Giovanni at Opéra Dijon and a ballet at Hamburgische Staatsoper.
She conducted concerts with the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Basque National Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester Basel and Staatsorchester Darmstadt.
In addition to her engagements at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Hansel and Gretel, La Cenerentola, Nabucco, among others), in 2024/25 Katharina Müllner returned to the Semperoper Dresden for two productions: The Magic Flute and Classics – a ballet by George Balanchine, Justin Peck and Twyla Tharp. Concert engagements brought her back to the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, while her debuts were with the Göttinger Symphonieorchester and Philharmonisches Orchester Erfurt.
Katharina Müllner’s operatic engagements include the premiere of the opera Der 35. Mai oder Konrad reitet in die Südsee by Raphaël Coumes-Marquet and Gordon Kampe at Semperoper Dresden in 2023/24, as well as The Magic Flute at Theater St. Gallen and Theater Chemnitz, Carmen at Theater Essen and at Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, Così fan tutte at Komische Oper Berlin, Suppès Der Teufel auf Erden and Britten's Death in Venice at Volksoper Wien.
Her symphonic invitations so far include Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg, Kärntner Sinfonieorchester, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Berner Symphonieorchester, Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal, Philharmonisches Orchester Coburg, Brandenburger Symphoniker, SWR Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, Robert Schumann Philharmonie Chemnitz, and others.
Katharina Müllner studied conducting, music education and psychology / philosophy in Vienna. After graduation, she joined Landestheater Linz as an accompanist with conducting duties, and led productions such as Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Il matrimonio segreto, as well as operettas and concerts for young audiences.