Bertrand de Billy
Bertrand de Billy, ( born January 11, 1965 in Paris ) is a French conductor.
Life
He was born in Paris, where he received his education and worked first as an orchestral musician, very soon as well as a conductor with various orchestras of his native city before he decided to go to Germany to work his way as an opera conductor from scratch. He began as assistant conductor and Managing General Music Director in Dessau; his path led him then to Berlin and Vienna, where he drew attention to himself with the premiere of Carmen in 1994 at the Volksoper in Vienna for the first time.
From 1996 to 1998 he was principal conductor of the house where today his interpretations of Mozart, but also his musical realization of the Harry Kupfer production of Boris Godunov are remembered. In parallel, developed very quickly for an international career. He appeared at the Staatsoper in Berlin, Hamburg and Munich, as well as from 1996 at the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, La Monnaie in Brussels and at the Opéra National in his hometown of Paris.
Other engagements have taken him to Washington, Los Angeles and at the New York Metropolitan Opera, where he is a regular guest since 1997, including the new production of Gounod's Romeo et Juliette initiated.
From autumn 1999 to July 2004, Bertrand de Billy, chief conductor of the rebuilt Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona. He headed in that time a total of 16 firsts, last Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung. In 2004 he studied at the Vienna State Opera, a five-act version of the Verdi's Don Carlos, 2007, he led the premiere of Massenet's Manon with Anna Netrebko and Roberto Alagna. In 2008, he conducted a new production of Gounod's Faust.
Bertrand de Billy was from 2002-2010 chief conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. The cooperation with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra began in spring 1998 with Massenet Mary Magdalene at the Festival OsterKlang and then sat down at the summer festival Klangbogen with the productions Werther, Luisa Miller, Idomeneo, Fidelio and the project " Verdi Marathon" continues. In the summer of 2006 was followed by the " Mozart Year ", the new production of Don Giovanni and almost parallel the Don Juan paraphrase flames of succumbed in the concentration camp of disease Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff.
Bertrand de Billy has recorded with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra on numerous CD productions, including a Mozart / Da Ponte cycle, d' Albert lowlands, excerpts from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde ( with Deborah Polaski and Johan Botha ), piano concertos by Ravel and Gershwin with Pascal Rogé and Schubert's Great Symphony in C major. Recently there was a highly acclaimed by the press recording of Beethoven 's Eroica. In spring 2008, a recording of Dukas ' Ariane et Barbe -Bleue with Deborah Polaski, and other Beethoven symphonies and tone poems of Richard Strauss published.
On the concert sector de Billy worked with the RSO Vienna a large number of premieres and first performances of contemporary composers - among other things by Friedrich Cerha, Gyorgy Kurtag, Thomas Daniel Schlee Jarrell, Henri Dutilleux, HK Gruber, Wolfgang Rihm, Staud, Mernier, Romitelli, Widmann, Luciano Berio, BA Zimmermann, Olivier Messiaen and Hans Werner Henze. He also launched a Mahler cycle and sat 20th century classics ( Debussy, Ravel, Berg, de Falla, Hindemith, etc.) in addition to the continuous maintenance of classical and romantic. Since 2002, Bertrand de Billy has performed with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra every year at the Salzburg Festival.
In the summer of 2008 he conducted at the Salzburg Festival 's new production of Mozart's Don Giovanni with the Vienna Philharmonic. In October 2008, the new production of Gounod's Faust at the Vienna State Opera followed. In January 2009, he has conducted the RSO in the new production of Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande at the Theater an der Wien. Also in 2009 he was awarded with the Viennese musical clock for the recording of the three Da Ponte operas of Mozart.
He is from September 2013 guest conductor at the Frankfurt Opera and guest conductor of the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra ( 2018 ). From September 2013 he is also Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne ( 2016 ).
He is a Knight of the French Ordre national de la Légion d' honneur, the Ordre national du Mérite and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2010 he received the Golden Badge of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria. In addition, Bertrand de Billy is on the board of the European musical theater academy.