Bio

MARTIN LEGINUS (1980)

Martin Leginus was born in Snina. He studied orchestra conducting at the State Conservatoire under the guidance of Zdeněk Bílek – last student of czech legendary conductor Václav Talich. He continued his studies at the Academy of Music and Performing arts in Bratislava under the guidance of Ondrej Lenárd. From 2006 to 2025 he was a member of the Opera company of the Slovak National Theatre, including the position of director of Opera of the Slovak National Theatre from 2023 to 2024. Since 2013 till 2016 Martin led State Opera Prague in position of Music Director. During season 2015/2016 he was principal guest conductor in Prague Chamber Orchestra. He has conducted at famous concert stages as Konzerthaus in Vienna, Konzerthaus in Berlin and Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo. Martin conducted 20 performances of Verdi’s La traviata in Japan during successful Japan tour with the company of State opera Prague in october 2015. Since 2018 till 2020 he collaborated with Slovak Sinfonietta Žilina as principal guest conductor. Martin has conducted following opera titles:  Orpheus and Eurydice, Martin and the Sun (Tibor Frešo), Carmen, The Magic flute, The Barber of Seville, The two Foscari, Macbeth, La traviata, Aida, Nabucco, Otello, Simone Boccanegra, Rigoletto, Falstaff, Don Carlo, Hansel and Gretel, Cavalleria Rusticana, I Pagliacci, Madama Butterfly, La bohème, La rondine, Manon Lescaut, Tosca, Il Tabarro, Gianni Schicchi, Suor Angelica, The Bartered Bride, Rusalka, King Svätopluk (Eugen Suchoň), Jenufa, The Cunning Little Vixen  and ballets The Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Ivan the Terrible, Giselle, La Sylphide and Spartacus.  Martin has collaborated with many legendary soloists as Leo Nucci, Karita Mattila, Farruccio Furlanetto, Simon Keenlyside, José Cura, Iwona Sobotka, Anna Samuil, Desirée Rancatore, Monica Zanettin, Slávka Zámečníková, Jana Kurucová, Pavol Breslik, Adriana Kučerová, Sergej Larin, Dalibor Jenis, Peter Mikuláš, Eva Urbanová etc.

In the 2023/2024 season his new collaboration with Teatr Wielki in Lodz in Poland and Teatro dell'Opera in Rome began. In January 2025 he collaborated for the first time with the Orquesta Clásica Santa Cecilia Madrid, with whom he performed Puccini's Tosca in Zaragoza, Spain. He will also perform the same title with this orchestra in Madrid in June 2025.