During the 2025-26 season, James Gaffigan conducts Porgy and Bess. After his return to Santa Fe Opera in summer 2025 to lead the production of Die Walküre, Gaffigan begins his third season as the General Music Director of Komische Oper Berlin and conducts productions of Salome, Eugene Onegin, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Hansel and Gretel, and The Nose. Following four seasons as Music Director of the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia, Gaffigan returns to conduct Salome. Guest engagements include returns to the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, and the Verbier Festival. During the 2024-25 season, Gaffigan conducted HGO’s Concert of Arias and led productions of Sweeney Todd, The Magic Flute, and Don Giovanni, among others, with Komische Oper Berlin. At Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, he conducted a staging of The Flying Dutchman and previously led productions of Wozzeck, La bohème, and Tristan und Isolde. In summer 2023, Gaffigan led the Metropolitan Opera in La bohème, as well as the Orchestra de Paris with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra. Gaffigan regularly works with the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and Detroit Symphony Orchestra, among others.