Alevtina Ioffe

Alevtina Ioffe is the new Chief Conductor of the Bern Opera, effective from the season 2025/26: as one of the most versatile and exciting conductors of her generation she is also the Principal Guest Conductor of the Staatskapelle Weimar from the season 2024/25.

Alevtina is highly demanded as opera conductor and regularly appears at the Komische Oper Berlin, at the Staatstheater in Stuttgart, where she made her debut with Hänsel und Gretel and at the Gothenburg Opera, where she returned during the season 2023/24 with a new production of The flying Dutchman. Conducting a new production of the ballet On the move, she also made her debut at the Opernhaus Zürich in December 2022. She has made her successful US operatic debut conducting Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at the Seattle Opera in May 2022, followed by a production of La bohème at the Washington National Opera in Spring 2023.

Alevtina Ioffe is equally successful with her symphonic activities: in France she has conducted the Orchestre National de Lille, she is regular guest of the Orchestre National de l’Île-de-France (both at the Cité de la Musique and at the Philharmonie de Paris) and has made her debut with the Orchestre National de Lyon in August 2024 leading a concert for the festival La Chaise Dieu. Alevtina Ioffe is also regularly present in Italy, where she has conducted the Orchestra della Toscana, the Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari (where she appears regularly and in September 2024 has conducted the opening concert of the symphonic season) and the Haydn Orchestra. In October 2023 she made her symphonic US debut with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra with great acclaim: she returned in October 2024 and will be again at the helm of the Seattle Symphony in the season 2025/26. Conducting music by Stravinsky and Holst, Alevtina also made her debut at the Oregon Bach Festival in the USA in Summer 2024.

In December 2023 she has conducted her first 7-cities European Tour to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra with concerts in Zagreb, Ljubljana, Budapest, Munich, Innsbruck, Linz and Athens and established a successful artistic partnership with pianist Alexander Malofeev.

The beginning of the season 2024/25 marked Alevtina’s first appearance in UK with the London Philharmonic and conducting the final concert of the Geneva Singing Competition, she has made her debut with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Orchestra. At the helm of the Danish Philharmonic Orchestra she has also made her debut in Denmark. Alevtina Ioffe will also return to Germany for concerts with the Staatskapelle Weimar and in the season 2025/26 she will conduct the ballet Swan Lake at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden.

Born in Moscow, Alevtina Ioffe studied choral conducting, classical vocal and piano at the Moscow State Conservatory, where she also attended post-graduate program in the class of opera and symphonic conducting held by Professor Vladimir Ponkin. For a decade, between 2011 and 2021, Alevtina Ioffe was Music Director of The State Opera and Ballet Theatre for Young Audience “Natalia Sats” in Moscow, where she has experienced a significant number of educational projects and developed a vast symphonic and operatic repertoire; between February 2021 and July 2022 she has also been Music Director of the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, the first women to lead an important musical institution in Russia.

She presently lives in Bern.