Henrik Nánási will celebrate his debut as General Music Director of the Komische Oper Berlin 2012/13 with a new production of Mozart´s The Magic Flute directed by Barrie Kosky.
His most recent successes include the musical direction of Verdi's I Masnadieri at the Oper Frankfurt, at the Volksoper Vienna the new productions of Dvorak´s Rusalka (directed by Renaud Doucet) and Lehár's The Merry Widow (directed by Marco Arturo Marelli). He made his debut with Rossini's L´Italiana in Algeri at the Semperoper Dresden, where he will regurarly return to conduct several pieces of the italian repertoire like Puccini`s La Bohème, Verdi´s La Traviata and Rossini´s La Cenerentola. Further future engagements include a new production of Chabrier's L´Étoile at the Oper Frankfurt (directed by David Alden) and his debut at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich with La Traviata.
Henrik Nánási was born in 1975 in Pécs/Hungary. He began his musical education at the Béla Bartók Conservatory in Budapest, studying piano and composition there before continuing his studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where he studied between 1993 and 2000 orchestral conducting (under Uroš Lajovic), rehearsal techniques (under Konrad Leitner), and composition (under Iván Eröd and Kurt Schwertsik) passing with distinction.
He received numerous distinctions and scholarships. In 1993, 1994, and 1997 he received a scholarship from the Alban Berg Foundation for Composers. In 1995 he was awarded the sponsorship prize of the Michael Ziehrer Foundation; in 1996 he was honoured by the Richard Wagner Foundation Bayreuth and received a scholarship from the Federal Ministry of Science, Transport and Art; in 1997 he was recognised for his outstanding artistic talent by the Dr Martha Sobotka - Charlotte Janeczek Foundation, and in 1998 he was honoured by the Global Foundation for Research and Scholarship.
Henrik Nánási came to the Stadttheater Klagenfurt in 1999 as a solo-répétiteur, before becoming that house's First Kapellmeister in 2002 and conducting a broad repertoire of Mozart (The Magic Flute, Così fan tutte), the Italian mode (Don Carlos, Nabucco, Norma, La Cenerentola, Don Pasquale, Turandot, Madama Butterfly, Tosca), Tchaikovsky (Pique Dame), and Stravinsky (The Rake's Progress), through to Offenbach (La Belle Helene) and such rare operettas as Lehar’s Eva.
From 2005 to 2007 he was First Kapellmeister at the Theater Augsburg (including Otello, Hansel and Gretel, Tosca), where he also conducted such new productions as Berlioz's Beatrice et Benedict, Gounod's Romeo et Juliette, Donizetti's  Maria Stuarda, and Salieri's Axur, Re d´Ormus .
He also worked as a musical assistant at the Covent Garden Royal Opera House under Antonio Pappano, and at the Opéra de Monte Carlo, and was intensely active in concerts as a pianist and Lieder accompanist.

In 2007 he became First Kappelmeister and temporary Head Conductor of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich (Le Nozze di Figaro, Fra Diavolo, L'Elisir d'Amore, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Boccaccio, Martha, etc). The debut performances in Munich of Giuseppe Verdi's I Masnadieri and Giovanna d´Arco under his direction were particularly well received.
His work as a guest conductor has taken him to such venues as the Volksoper Vienna (Carmen, La Traviata, La Bohème, Countess Mariza, The Bird Seller), the Oper Frankfurt  (La Bohème), the Komische Oper Berlin (Fidelio), the Staatstheater Braunschweig (Otello, The Riviera Girl), the Nationaltheater Mannheim (The Magic Flute), the Budapest Operetta Theatre (The Bat, The Land of Smiles) and the Miskolc International Opera Festival (Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Gianni Schicchi). He conducted the extremely successful inaugural Swiss performance of Verdi's early work of Alzira (staged by Denis Krief) at the Theater St Gallen, where he will return to conduct a new production of Verdi´s Un Ballo in Maschera directed by Jim Lucassen.
Henrik Nánási's concert work affiliates him the Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Orchestre Symphonique de L´Opera de Toulon, Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck, Staatsorchester Braunschweig,  Philharmonisches Orchester Augsburg, Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen and the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen.