Jonathan Darlington
Jonathan Darlington ( born 1956 Lapworth, Warwickshire, England), conductor, from 2002 to 2011, the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra Music Director and Music Director of the Vancouver Opera in Canada.
Professional career
Darlington studied music at the University of Durham and at the Royal Academy of Music in London. His conducting career began at Radio France. He has mastered a wide range of repertoire, and its programs include both symphonic standard works as well as works of the Baroque and Modern. Numerous premieres and first evidence of the wide range of his skills.
During his time at Radio France Darlington worked with some of the greatest musicians of our time, such as Pierre Boulez, Riccardo Muti and Olivier Messiaen, together. Other engagements have taken him to the Glyndebourne Festival, the Berlioz Festival in Lyon and Scottish Opera to Glasgow. He made his debut in 1984 at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées with Francesco Cavalli Ormindo. In 1991 he was appointed by Myung -Whun Chung as Assistant Music Director of the Opéra de la Bastille in Paris, where he made his debut with Le nozze di Figaro. This activity led him in the following years to some of the major international opera houses.
Since 2001 Darlington works regularly with the Orchestre National de France. Guest concerts and opera productions join him, inter alia, with the Lausanne Opera House ( Britten's Rape of Lucretia, and Mozart's Lucio Silla ), the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Dusseldorf / Duisburg (including Manfred Trojans What You Will, Verdi's Falstaff, Mozart's The Abduction, Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen ), the Theatre des Champs Elysées, Paris (including Stravinsky's rake's Progress, Janacek's the Cunning Little Vixen ), the Opera House of Bordeaux (including Verdi's Macbeth, La Traviata ), Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, the Hamburg State Opera, Teatro San Carlo ( Naples), the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, the Prague radio Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, Orchestre National Bordeaux, BBC Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Taiwan. In June 2005, he has led with great success the new production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin at the English National Opera. At the Opera House Vancouver Jonathan Darlington has conducted in recent years to great acclaim from audiences and press Verdi's Un ballo in maschera and La Traviata and Mozart's Don Giovanni. In June 2006, Darlington made her debut with a new production of Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito at the Sydney Opera House with great success. In September 2006, he conducted the acclaimed by the international press new production of Verdi's La Traviata at the English National Opera.
Recent successes came with the premiere of Manfred Trojahn La Grande Magia (May 2008) with the Staatskapelle Dresden, Gustave Charpentier's Louise (October 2008) at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein with the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Tchaikovsky's Salome (May 2009) at the Vancouver Opera. In August 2009 he returned for Beethoven's Fidelio at the Sydney Opera House.
Jonathan Darlington is married and lives in Paris.
Prizes and awards
For Jonathan Darlington Awards include the appointment as Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, London. In 2011 he was awarded the Music Prize of the city of Duisburg.