Stefano Flavoni

Stefano Flavoni is the assistant conductor of Staatsoper Hamburg and the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg.

He has also served as assistant conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, cover conductor for the New York Philharmonic and Baltimore Symphony, as well as assistant conductor on Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre with the Bayerische Staatsoper. He has assisted such conductors as Kent Nagano, Manfred Honeck, Jane Glover, Michael Tilson Thomas, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Herbert Blomstedt.

His 2024-25 season included assisting on such works as Tristan und Isolde, Elektra, Ariadne auf Naxos, Boris Godunov, Orff's Trionfi, and Unsuk Chin's new opera Die dunkle Seite des Mondes. He has collaborated with such acclaimed vocalists as Stuart Skelton, Simon O'Neill, Iréne Theorin, Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Julia Bullock, Davóne Tines, and Anthony Roth Costanzo.

He has been honored by the Solti Foundation with the Career Assistance Award in 2023, 2024, and 2025.