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 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
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 11/12COVENT GARDEN
Mozart - The Marriage of Figaro
June 4/8/13/17/22/26/29
Biography
The French-Swiss conductor Bertrand de Billy is one of the most important artists both in the opera pit and on the concert stage.
He is a regular guest conductor at the Vienna State Opera, where he will return in the 2026/27 season for a new production of La damnation de Faust, as well as for Don Carlos and Otello . He will also return to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden for a new production of Manon Lescaut and make his debut at La Scala with Don Quichotte . On the concert stage, he will make his debut with the Essen Philharmonic and return to the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra, and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and back to the Basel Symphony Orchestra.
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In the 2025/26 season, de Billy conducted revivals of Otello , Le nozze di Figaro (as part of a Japanese tour), Manon , Idomeneo , and The Flying Dutchman at the Vienna State Opera, a new production of Les Contes d'Hoffmann at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, and Le nozze di Figaro at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. On the concert stage, he appeared with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne , dem Konzerthausorchester Berlin , the Filarmonica TRT in Turin, the Staatskapelle Weimar , dem Orchestre National de Lyon , the Graz Philharmonic and the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. Other highlights of recent seasons include the successful new productions of La Vestale at the Opéra de Paris and Les Dialogues des Carmélites and Faust at the Vienna State Opera. Early engagements took him 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 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 State Orchestra, the RSB Berlin, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin , the Dresden Philharmonic, the Royal Danish Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France , the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande , the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and many more.
De Billy's repertoire spans from Bach to numerous world premieres. He maintains close relationships with the Vienna State Opera, Theater an der Wien, Vienna Musikverein, and Vienna Konzerthaus, alongside his work with the Bavarian State Opera.
Born in Paris, he received his education there and began his career as an orchestral musician before transitioning to conducting. From 1993-95 he was first Kapellmeister and deputy GMD at the Anhalt Theatre in Dessau, and from 1996-98 he held the same position at the Vienna Volksoper. He served as the principal conductor of the Gran Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona from 1999-2004 and of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra from 2002-2010.
Numerous CD and DVD recordings document his artistic work. Bertrand de Billy has received several prestigious awards in France and Austria, including honorary membership of the Vienna State Opera.
2026/27
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