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 regarded as one of the most distinguished artists both on the opera 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 tour to Japan), Manon, Idomeneo, and Der fliegende Holländer. He also returns to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden for a new production of Les Contes d’Hoffmann (directed by Lydia Steier). On the concert stage, he appears this season with 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 recent seasons, Bertrand de Billy conducted acclaimed new productions of La Vestale at the Opéra de Paris, as well as Les Dialogues des Carmélites and Faust at the Vienna State Opera. Early in his career, he was invited by major opera houses and orchestras around the world, 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, and the opera houses of 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 collaborated with renowned orchestras worldwide, including the Cleveland Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Staatskapelle, the Orchestre de Paris, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Frankfurt Museum Orchestra, the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra, RSB Berlin, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Danish Orchestra, Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Suisse Romande, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, 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.
2025/26
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