Alain Lombard

Alain Lombard ( born October 4, 1940 in Paris ) is a French conductor.

He began his conducting activities in 1961 at the Lyon Opera, spent the next few years in the United States, where he acted as assistant to Leonard Bernstein, among others, in New York. In 1971 he was appointed music director of the Strasbourg Philharmonic, a post he held until 1983. In 1972, he proposed the creation of the Opéra du Rhin by the fusion of lyrical ensemble of Strasbourg, Colmar and Mulhouse. Immediately he was also artistic director of this new facility and de facto supreme Lord of classical music throughout Alsace. Contracts with EMI and Erato secured him at this time a good reputation as a successful climber. From the early 1980s, however, the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra became less and less in demand internationally. Since 1988 Lombard led the Orchestra of the city of Bordeaux, and since 1990 their opera. After the election of the newly elected prime minister Alain Juppe as mayor of Bordeaux, the conductor was dismissed from all his posts on 20 November 1995 for financial reasons without notice. After a dry spell of four years he has led from 1999 to 2005 the Ticino Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and has since been its Honorary Conductor.

Discography ( opera )

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