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| Louis Langrée, |
The excellent French conductor was music director of the Lyon Opera from 1998 to 2000 and of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Liege from 2001 to 2006. He has been artistic director of the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York since 2002. He is a regular guest at leading music festivals (Spoleto, BBC Proms, Salzburg, Vienna, Glyndebourne) and opera houses (Covent Garden, Chicago, Dresden, Opera Bastille, Vienna State Opera). He received the "opera conductor of the year" award from the British Royal Philharmonic Society along with Simon Rattle for a production of Fidelio in Glyndebourne in 2001. In the 2009/2010 season he made his debut at the Scala of Milan (Don Giovanni) and the Opera Comique in Paris (Messager: Fortunio). He also conducted at the Metropolitan Opera in New York (Thomas: Hamlet) and at the Aix-en-Provence Festival (Don Giovanni). He often works along with early music ensembles (Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Concerto Cologne, Orchestra des Champs-Elysées).
Langrée conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra for the first time.
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