British conductor Josephine Korda was conductor-in-residence of the Opera de Paris from 2024 to 2026, and the Grand Prix winner of the Neeme Järvi Prize at the Gstaad Festival Conducting Academy 2025. Known for her sensitive and evocative ways of sculpting sound and imaginative rehearsal work based on profound analysis of the score, Korda is gaining recognition as a conductor with equal strengths in opera, ballet and the symphonic repertoire.

In the 2026/2027 season Korda makes a series of debuts with orchestras such as the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Münchner Symphoniker, Philharmonie Südwestfalen and the Göttinger Symphonieorchester. She directs the world premiere production of Christian Henking’s ‘Trennt Euch!’ at the Theater Biel/Solothurn, and a new ballet production in Schwerin that includes music by Weber, Villa-Lobos and Wagner. She also leads the ‘Viva l’Orchestra!’ of the Orchestre National de France at the end of the season.

Korda’s affinity for the opera goes back to her childhood, and she produced and conducted ‘Die Fledermaus’ at the age of sixteen at her school. She was assistant conductor at the Opéra de Massy in 2020/21, and trainee conductor at Opera North in 2022/23. In 2025 she was Young Artist Conductor of Opera Holland Park and made her debut with Jonathan Dove's ‘Itch’. At the Opera de Paris, she worked on new productions of ‘Nixon in China’ and ‘Eugene Onegin’ alongside Kent Nagano, Semyon Bychkov and Case Scaglione in the 2025/2026 season. Also passionate about dance, she made her debut at the Northern Ballet with ‘Romeo and Juliet’ in 2024 and returned in 2025 to conduct ‘The Nutcracker’.