The young Dutch conductor Antony Hermus has already captured the musical world. In 2003 he was appointed Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Hagen Opera/Philharmonic Orchestra, where he has gained many awards for his work.

Despite his young age, Antony Hermus has already conducted a wide repertoire: numerous operas and symphonic pieces, most of them new productions, e. g. Carmen, Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro, Faust, La Bohème, Tosca, Katja Kabanova, L'Enfant et les sortilèges, Il barbiere di Siviglia, La Forza del Destino, Der fliegende Holländer, Tannhäuser, Die tote Stadt, Elektra, Manon, and Falstaff.

Apart from »standard-repertoire« Antony Hermus has been conducting many »rediscoveries« such as Die Königskinder by Humperdinck and Kleider machen Leute by Zemlinsky. He has also performed contemporary music with Where the Wild Things are by Oliver Knussen, the world premiere of the new version of Helle Nächte by Moritz Eggert and the German premiere of Dead Man Walking by Jake Heggie.

In 2005 he conducted a very successful production of Der Freischütz by Weber at the Rennes Opera, followed by a new production of Cosi fan tutte in 2007 in cooperation with the Opéra de Bastille in Paris.

In season 2008/09 he led the new production of Tsar Saltan by Rimsky-Korsakov at the Opera Zuid, the new productions of Matrimonio Segreto by Cimarosa at the Opéra National de Paris and Don Giovanni in Rennes.

From the season 2009/10 Antony Hermus will be Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Dessau Opera/Anhaltische Philharmonie.

Antony Hermus conducted many orchestras such as Brabants Orchestra, Orchestre de Bretagne, Duisburg Philharmonic, Bochum Symphony, Freiburg Philharmonic, Norddeutsche Philharmonie, Jena Philharmonic, Osnabrück Symphony, RTE National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Noord Nederlands orkest, etc.

Forthcoming invitations includes performances with the Residentie Orkest, Limburg Symphony, Gelders Orchestra, Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, L'Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie.