Plenary
Oct 23, 2024
4:30 PM5:00 PM
Online
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Louis Langrée
Opéra Comique
Director
Description
Louis Langrée has been appointed Director of the Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique by Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic, on the recommendation of Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, Minister of Culture. He takes office on November 1, 2021, for a 5-year term.
Louis Langrée was born in Mulhouse in 1961. After studying at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, he began his career as conductor and assistant conductor at the Opéra national de Lyon, then at the Orchestre de Paris.
He has been Music Director of the Orchestre de Picardie and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, as well as of the Opéra national de Lyon and the Glyndebourne Touring Opera.
Since 2003, he has been Music Director of the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center in New York, and since 2013, of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, two institutions to which he invites numerous French artists. As a symphonic conductor, he has led the Berlin, Vienna, London, New York, Los Angeles Philharmonic and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestras, as well as the Orchestre de Paris and the Orchestre National de France. He also performs with ensembles on period instruments (Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Freiburger Barockorchester, Concert d'Astrée...). He has directed and participated in the creation of numerous opera productions at the Vienna Staatsoper, La Scala in Milan, the Royal Opera House-Covent Garden in London, the Opéra national de Paris, and the Glyndebourne, Hollywood Bowl and Aix-en-Provence festivals.
An ambassador for the French operatic repertoire, notably at New York's Metropolitan Opera, where he conducted Iphigénie en Tauride, Dialogues des Carmélites, Carmen and Hamlet, he has also been a regular guest at the Opéra-Comique. In particular, he has conducted Salle Favart, Fortunio, Pelléas et Mélisande, Le Comte Ory and Hamlet with the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées. Three of these productions have been released on DVD to critical acclaim: Diapason d'Or de l'année, Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros, Prix Caecilia, Diamant de Opéra magazine, “Best Recording of the Year” at the International Opera Awards and “Best Video Performance” at the International Classical Music Awards.
Louis Langrée is a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.
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