The Orchestra of the Musical Comedy, Leipzig
Founded in 1902 and appointed municipal orchestra in 1912, is one of the world's few specialist ensembles in the genres of operetta, play opera and musical. Even Franz Lehár, Nico Dostal, Paul Lincke or Johannes Heesters appreciated the musical quality of the orchestra. Since 1967, Roland Seiffarth, from 1978 - 2007 as Musical Director and Chief Conductor, has shaped the style of this unique orchestra. From 2007 - 2015 Stefan Diederich was principal conductor of the Musikalische Komödie.

With Stefan Klingele, engaged as principal conductor since the 2015/16 season, the orchestra today has a conductor who focuses on targeted work with the orchestra far beyond its actual domain. Guest appearances have taken the orchestra to the Philharmonies of Cologne and Essen, to the Open Air at Berlin's Gendarmenmarkt, to the Dortmund Konzerthaus, to the Graf-Zeppelin-Haus in Friedrichshafen, to the Winterthur Theatre (ch), to the Coesfeld Concert Theatre and to Aschaffenburg. After three joint concerts at the opera house, the orchestra toured Germany with the "Prinzen" in 2018 and 2019. A number of operetta excavations have been documented on cd on the Rondeau label, including "Princess Nefertiti" by Nico Dostal and "Das Lied der Liebe" by Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

Stefan Klingele
Studied conducting and violoncello at the Musikhochschule Würzburg. Permanent engagements at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich and at the Bremen Theatre, most recently as chief conductor of the opera. Guest engagements at numerous European theatres, including most recently the Aalto-Musiktheater Essen, the Nationaltheater Weimar, the Semperoper Dresden, the Royal Opera Stockholm, the ENO London, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf/Duisburg, the Vienna Volksoper, the operas of Gothenburg and Oslo as well as the Staatsoper Hannover and the Tiroler Landestheater. At the Musikalische Komödie Leipzig 2013/14: musical director of "Romeo und Julia". Here from 2015/16 music director and chief conductor with new productions of, among others, "Wiener Blut", "Prinzessin Nofretete", "Hape Kerkeling's Kein Pardon - Das Musical", "Die große Sünderin", "Casanova", "On the Town", "Madame Pompadour", 2019/20 at the Westbad "Zorbas / Balkanfeuer", "Der Vogelhändler". Künstlerische Leitung der Reihen »Nachhall« und »Jazz im Lortzing« sowie des Operettenworkshops. 2021/22 Rehearsal of "The Cinema Queen" and "Me and my Girl".