Eduardo Strausser
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“The charismatic Strausser, sensitive and empathetic in accompaniment, achieved fine orchestral balance and clarity, the winds nicely positioned in the texture and the work well-pacedwith good forward impetus.”
The Five Lines, May 2023
Principal Conductor and Music Director of Norrlandsoperan
Brazilian conductor Eduardo Strausser serves as the Principal Conductor and Music Director of Norrlandsoperan, Umea. Renowned internationally for his versatility across both symphonic and operatic repertoire, he is deeply committed to contemporary music and brings a unique energy and dynamism to his performances. In June 2026 he has extended his tenure in Umea through the 28/29 season.
In the 2026/27 season, Strausser conducts a highly anticipated production of La bohème at the Norrlandsoperan, and this follows a hugely successful production of Tristan und Isolde in 25/26. This season he also returns to Queensland Symphony Orchestra and Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonika, continuing his regular relationships with both orchestras. Further highlights include performances with Opéra Orchestre National de Montpellier, Residentie Orkest, Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid and BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
Alongside core repertoire, Strausser champions contemporary music, and over the course of this season he conducts works by living composers including Anna Clyne, Missy Mazzoli, Thea Musgrave, Nina Shekhar, Jessie Montgomery and Andrea Tarrodi.
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Eduardo Strausser regularly collaborates with orchestras such as Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The Hallé, Opéra Orchestre National de Montpellier, Philharmonie Zuidnederland, Kansas City Symphony, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
Previously Resident Conductor of Teatro São Paulo from 2014 to 2016, Eduardo led productions in São Paulo of Elektra and Carlos Gomes’ rarely performed Fosca, alongside The Nutcracker with Balé da Cidade de São Paulo and a striking staging of Mahler’s Symphony No.1 in collaboration with director Stefano Poda.
Since then, Strausser’s operatic engagements have expanded across Europe. He has conducted Tosca for both Northern Ireland Opera and Theater Magdeburg, and led productions at Staatstheater Hannover, including Il barbiere di Siviglia, Hänsel und Gretel and Die Zauberflöte. His credits also include Leonard Evers’ Die Odyssee at Opernhaus Zürich and appearances at Teatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro and Teatro Verdi di Padova with La bohème. Strausser has also conducted the world premiere of Jenny Wilson’s debut opera, The Lovers, in March 2025 with Norrlandsoperan.
Eduardo regularly collaborates with renowned soloists such as Javier Perianes, Nobuyuki Tsujii, Alexandra Lowe, Isata Kanneh-Mason, Marie-Ange Nguci, Paul Lewis, Augustin Hadelich, Richard Galliano, Cédric Tiberghien and Steven Osborne, among others. A skilled polyglot, he speaks eight languages fluently, including German, Italian, French, Spanish and Hebrew.
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“Three centuries of music, excellently assembled, conducted and staged……The result is fascinating and fully convincing.”
“The present performance left little doubt as to Strausser’s belief in this music.”
“Under the Brazilian conductor Eduardo Strausser, the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra got it exactly right…And what a humdinger of a performance this was….Possessing much expertise and impeccable judgement…”
“…under the baton of Strausser and his sharp, very physical conducting….Overall, a captivating musical adventure…”
“…a performance of pure musical brilliance.”
“The opening of this work was spine-tinglingly effective, showcasing WASO’s ever-impressive collective sense of drama as an ensemble, led most effectively by the flamboyant and impressively physical style of Brazilian conductor, Eduardo Strausser. Their creation of a long and gloriously rich crescendo, leading to a draw-droppingly virtuosic opening cadenza by Jumppanen, was everything that live classical performance should be.”
“In his ethereal, mercurial way, he seems to be part of the music itself, a kind of other-worldly creature, nimbly alighting from desk to desk, urging more from one, less from another. He was everywhere and nowhere at once, a conductor of the spirit.”
“Leading the fun was Brazilian Eduardo Strausser, who almost danced his way through the polkas and waltzes as he conducted from the podium with enthusiastic expression.”
“But the nicest compliment that needs to be made to the production: the scene enables the music to fly, we can hear how this wonderful score is so inspiring and playful. Eduardo Strausser conducts a lightly accentuated Rossini enriched with generous pianissimi. On the hammer piano, Francesco Greco lets the precisely worked recitatives sparkle with his improvisational free spirit. Great!”
“Everything is subject to the smooth sovereignty of the musical direction of Eduardo Strausser: he emphasizes all the details with the Staatsochester, so that brilliant accuracy goes hand in hand with an exhilarating zest for life. It didn’t take a minute for the audience to stand.”
“Strausser had the moment of his life, the best Jupiter Sinfonie in a long time!” ****
“Eduardo Strausser, a revelation of the season.”
“Maestro Strausser is unquestionably one of the new faces in the music world, and part of its exciting future”
“Eduardo Strausser holds a light direction, he’s sensible in choosing the timing and dynamics, attentive to the contrast of colors, very expressive. But, most importantly, the direction has a fast paced narrative rhythm and is pervaded by theatricality beauty, able to return to listening all the soft delicacy of Puccini’s score, without never incurring in languorousness.”
“The conductor Eduardo Strausser strikes, and the first three chords, solemn, threatening, sound different. Livelier, faster, or more intense. Immediately, everything … electrifies, pardon the pun. (…) Strausser conducts with precision, spirit, energy. The Orquestra Sinfônica Municipal responds magnificently.”
“A superb Strausser at Teatro la Fenice in Venice” — “The perfection of the Orchestra Filarmonica della Fenice shone in all its grace thanks to young conductor Eduardo Strausser … a real force of nature. His conducting is imbued with charisma, stage presence, and good chemistry with the orchestra …”
“On the podium, the young Brazilian conductor Eduardo Strausser [conducting the Orchestra Filarmonica della Fenice] proves himself a sensitive musician … Strausser has a beautiful gesture that translates into a very organic performance…”
“Young Eduardo Strausser, the theater’s resident conductor drew out playing that displayed the full spectrum of the Wagnerian instrumental palette, with an expressionist zest spurred on by an all-pervading sense of angst.”
“Everything changed on the second evening [this time under conductor Eduardo Strausser]. The orchestra seemed more confident, and Eduardo Strausser, lyrical and narrative, adjusting the intensity so as to bring out the voices, immediately captured the audience’s attention.”
”Eduardo Strausser brings youthful fire to the work (G. Verdi’s Otello) alongside vigilant attention to accuracy.”
”… the conductor expresses profound and passionate perception [of the opera Eugene Onegin], presenting the inner turmoil of the protagonists and the passions at stake.”









