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After "Lohengrin", Konwitschny returned to Hamburg to cooperate with the conductor Ingo Metzmacher on Alban Berg's "Lulu", Richard Wagner's "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg", and Arnold Schoenberg's "Moses und Aron". In 2004 he directed Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman" at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, in 2005 Richard Strauss' "Elektra" in Copenhagen and in 2009 Strauss' "Salome" in Amsterdam. Since August 2008, Konwitschny is principal director of productions at the Leipzig Opera.