Alevtina Ioffe

Alevtina Ioffe is 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 and Honorary Conductor at the Danish Philharmonic Orchestra.

Alevtina is highly demanded as opera conductor and regularly appears at the Komische Oper Berlin, at the Staatstheater in Stuttgart and at the Gothenburg Opera. She also conducted at the Seattle Opera, at the Opernhaus Zürich, and at the Washington National Opera.

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 and has made her debut with the Orchestre National de Lyon in August 2024. Alevtina Ioffe is also regularly present in Italy, where she has conducted the Orchestra della Toscana, the Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari and the Haydn Orchestra.

In October 2023 she made her symphonic US debut with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra with great acclaim. In December 2023 she has conducted her first 7-cities European Tour to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Alevtina Ioffe conducted a second 6-cities European tour, in February 2026, with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra.

The beginning of the season 2024/25 marked Alevtina’s first appearance in the UK with the London Philharmonic. In the season 2025/26, Alevtina Ioffe made her debut in Spain and Portugal conducting respectively the Orquestra de Extremadura and the Gulbenkian Orchestra. The debuts of the 2026/27, include the Orchestra of Teatro La Fenice and the Orchestra of Teatro Comunale di Bologna in Italy, the Orchestre Philharmonic de Strasbourg in France, the Royal Theater of La Monnaie in Belgium and Opera Australia in Sydney.

Born in Moscow, Alevtina Ioffe studied choral conducting, classical vocal piano and conducting at the Moscow State Conservatory. For a decade, between 2011 and 2021, Alevtina Ioffe was Music Director of Natalia Sats Theatre in Moscow; between February 2021 and July 2022 she has also been Music Director of the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.

She presently lives in Bern.