Adam Turner
Currently in his eighth season as Artistic Director & Chief Conductor of Virginia Opera (following four seasons as Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor), Maestro Adam Turner garners critical acclaim for the breadth of his repertoire, artistic vision, and polished technique. Of his performance of Street Scene with Virginia Opera, Opera News hailed the “sensitive conducting” of Adam Turner “who demonstrated an affinity for a score as stylistically diverse as the characters in the plot” and of his conducting of Der Freischütz, Opera News hailed: “Conductor Adam Turner … ensured crackling rhythms as much as lyrical spaciousness, resulting in a performance that felt vital and spontaneous throughout.” In the 2025-2026 Season at Virginia Opera, Turner will be on the podium for productions of La Cenerentola, Aida, and the Commonwealth premiere of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Intelligence. Additionally this season, Mo. Turner leads the Virginia Symphony Orchestra’s program “Classical Christmas” and Williamsburg Symphony Orchestra’s The Nutcracker with Virginia Regional Ballet. In recent seasons at Virginia Opera, he has led productions of Carmen, Così fan tutte, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, Madama Butterfly, La Bohème, Three Decembers, Le Nozze di Figaro, The Pirates of Penzance, Fellow Travelers, and La Traviata, in addition to conducting the world premiere of Loving v. Virginia by Damien Geter and Jessica Murphy Moo. In the summer of 2025, Mo. Turner made his mainstage debut with Opera Saratoga conducting the Bock & Harnick musical She Loves Me, and he was also recently seen at the helm for Central City Opera’s productions of Street Scene, Kiss Me, Kate and The Light in the Piazza, as well as debuts with the Pacific Symphony for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Portland Symphony Orchestra’s concert “Classical Broadway.” Maestro Turner has conducted Il Trovatore and Roméo et Juliette for Toledo Opera.