Bertrand De Billy
Orchestre Suisse Romande - Messiaen Turangalîla Symphony
In Geneva, at the head of the OSR, Bertrand de Billy delivered a brilliant and dazzling interpretation, at once intoxicating and sensual, particularly in the magnificent slow movement (“Jardin du sommeil d'amour”), with concise rhythms, but always without exaggeration or sensationalism, without kitsch, without ever overloading the space, and with perfect clarity, even in the densest passages.
ConcertoNet (May 14, 2025)
The Press (June 6, 2025)Season 25/26 and Highlights
VIENNA STATE OPERA
Verdi - Otello
Sep 4/8/11
OPERNAIR in the Burggarten
Sep 7
VIENNA STATE OPERA
Guest performance in Japan (Tokyo Bunka Kaikan)
Mozart - The Marriage of Figaro
Oct 1/7/9/11/12
BERLIN STATE OPERA
Offenbach - Les Contes d'Hoffmann
PREMIERE Nov 16
Nov 19/21/26/28, Dec 4
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VIENNA STATE OPERA
Massenet - Manon
Jan 9/11/14/17
Mozart - Idomeneo
Jan 16/19/23/25
ORCHESTRE DE CHAMBRE DE LAUSANNE
Wagner - Siegfried's Death and Funeral March from Götterdämmerung
Wagner - Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Wagner - Overture to The Mastersingers of Nuremberg
Wagner - Overture to Tannhäuser
Feb 10/11
KONZERTHAUSORCHESTER BERLIN
Debussy - Petite Suite
Poulenc - Concerto for Organ, String Orchestra and Timpani
Saint-Saëns - Symphony No. 3
March 12/13/14
FILARMONICA TEATRO REGIO TORINO
Strauss, R. - Four Last Songs
Brahms - Symphony No. 4
March 23
STAATSKAPELLE WEIMAR
Pfitzner - 3 Preludes from Palestrina
Bruckner - Symphony No. 9
March 29/30
VIENNA STATE OPERA
Wagner - The Flying Dutchman
Apr 22/25/29, May 3
GRAZ PHILHARMONIC
Glière - Concerto for Harp
Strauss, R. - An Alpine Symphony
May 11/12
Biography
The French-Swiss conductor Bertrand de Billy is one of the most important artists on both the operatic stage and the concert podium. He is a regular guest at the Vienna State Opera, where this season he will conduct revivals of Otello , Le nozze di Figaro (as part of a guest performance in Japan), Manon , Idomeneo and The Flying Dutchman . He will also return to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden with a new production of The Tales of Hoffmann (directed by Lydia Steier). On the concert podium, he will conduct renowned orchestras such as the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne , the Konzerthausorchester Berlin , the Filarmonica TRT in Turin, the Staatskapelle Weimar , the Orchestre National de Lyon , the Graz Philharmonic and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo.
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In previous seasons, Bertrand de Billy conducted, among others, the successful new productions of La Vestale at the Opéra de Paris and Les Dialogues des Carmélites and Faust at the Vienna State Opera. Engagements have taken him early on to major opera houses and orchestras worldwide, including the State Operas in Vienna, Berlin, Hamburg and Munich, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, La Monnaie in Brussels, the Opéra National de Paris as well as the opera houses in Washington and Los Angeles. Since 1997, he has been a regular guest at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and since 2002 at the Salzburg Festival.
He has conducted leading orchestras worldwide, such as the Cleveland Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden , the Orchestre de Paris, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Museumsorchester Frankfurt, the Hamburg Philharmonic, the RSB Berlin, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin , the Dresden Philharmonic, the Royal Chapel of Copenhagen, the Orchestre National de France , the Orchestre Suisse Romande, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and many more.
De Billy conducts a broad repertoire from Bach to numerous world premieres. He has close collaborations with the Vienna State Opera, the Theater an der Wien, the Vienna Musikverein and the Vienna Konzerthaus, as well as with the Bavarian State Opera.
Born in Paris, de Billy received his education in his hometown and initially performed as an orchestral musician before quickly becoming active as a conductor. From 1993 to 1995, he was First Kapellmeister and Deputy General Music Director at the Anhaltisches Theater in Dessau, and from 1996 to 1998, he held the same position at the Vienna State Opera. Volksoper Between 1999 and 2004 he was chief conductor of the Gran Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona and from 2002 to 2010 chief conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Numerous CD and DVD recordings document his artistic work. Bertrand de Billy has received several high awards in France and Austria.
2025/26
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