Alain Altinoglu music director at La Monnaie
Alain Altinoglu music director at La Monnaie
Alain Altinoglu, Music Director at La Monnaie, Bruzelles from 1. January 2016. Foto: Tine Claerhout.
© Tine Claerhout/La Monnaie De Munt
BRUXELLES/BELGIUM: Conductor Alain Altinoglu has been appointed as Music Director of the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie assuming his new role in January 2016.
After several performances at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, including Massenet’s Cendrillon in 2011, and many symphonic concerts with our orchestra, it is with great enthusiasm that La Monnaie welcome Maestro Alain Altinoglu into this long-term collaboration as their new Music Director.
Today Alain Altinoglu has become one of the most sought after conductors on the international circuit collaborating with major opera houses, including New York’s Metropolitan Opera (notably conducting a new production of Werther last season), the Wiener Staatsoper (Simon Boccanegra, Don Carlos, Salome) and the Staatsoper Berlin (Faust). In Zürich’s Opernhaus, as a regular guest, he most recently conducted a new production of Der Fliegende Holländer ; in Munich, a new production ofManon Lescaut ; in London at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Don Giovanni and in Summer 2015 he made his debut at the prestigious Bayreuth Festival. In March 2016 Alain Altinoglu will conduct a new production of Iolanta / Casse-noisette at the Paris Opera and next summer Alain Altinoglu will return to the Salzburg Festival conducting Don Giovanni.
On the symphony podium, Altinoglu regularly conducts the major international orchestras including Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de Lyon, City of Birmingham Symphony Orches- tra, Gothenburg Symphony, Staatskapelle Dresden, Staatskapelle Berlin, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Bamberger Symphoniker, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Wiener Symphoniker, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
With Alain Altinoglu, La Monnaie is proud to have a new Music Director with such exceptional experience and outstanding credentials in both the opera and symphonic field.
PETER DE CALUWE
’The awaited appointment of Alain Altinoglu as new Music Director for La Monnaie comes at the end of a long and intense process of reflection and introspection.
For the opera house this is the beginning of a new and exciting journey that will extend over many sea- sons
. Alain Altinoglu is undoubtedly one of the most outstanding conductors of his generation. With his brilliant success in opera festivals and in major opera houses, he has been focusing increasingly on symphonic repertoire
. Alain Altinoglu is undoubtedly one of the most outstanding conductors of his generation. With his brilliant success in opera festivals and in major opera houses, he has been focusing increasingly on symphonic repertoire
For a long time, I have dreamed about a long term partnership with Maestro Altinoglu. Each time he was a guest conductor in one of our productions, we were always inspired by the radiant faces of the members of the orchestra and by hearing the brilliant colours and sounds of the ensemble. With Alain Altinoglu, the chemistry between conductor and musicians, as well as the musical quality of the orchestra will be assured. I therefore await our collaboration with great anticipation.’
Théâtre de la Monnaie, Bruxelles, Foto Henning Høholt
ALAIN ALTINOGLU
‘It is a great joy and honour for me to take up the post of Music Director at Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie – a new step in my musical career that I’m tremendously excited about. The orchestra of La Monnaie and I have been working together on numerous occasions
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. Looking back and remembering our first opera production of Massenet’s Cendrillon in 2011, I feel very excited that we can further build on our strong working relationship
. I have the greatest admiration for the incredible professionalism of each member of the team at La Monnaie, its excellent chorus, hardworking musical, technical and administration teams headed by its Directeur Général Peter de Caluwe. Working closely together with Peter, I look forward to continuing the innovative programming in both the opera as well as symphonic field and to developing La Monnaie’s reputation as one of the world’s leading opera houses. Having had the chance to get to know Brussels, a city that I love, I feel a special personal connection to La Monnaie’s audiences. Through passionate performances, inspirational educational work and innovative outreach projects I aim to embrace La Monnaie’s existing audiences further – whilst at the same time attracting new audiences to this magnificent house.’
ALAIN ALTINOGLU @ LA MONNAIE 2015/16
6 & 7 November 2015 – 20:00
Grande Messe des morts Hector Berlioz
Orchestre symphonique et Chœurs de la Monnaie & MM Academy
Palais des Beaux-Arts
10 January 2016 – 20:00
Prélude 2016 Hector Berlioz, Jacques Ibert, Luciano Berio, Georges Bizet, Maurice Ravel
Orchestre symphonique de la Monnaie
Palais des Beaux-Arts
23 May 2016 – 20:00
Histoires naturelles Maurice Ravel, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms
Nora Gubisch, mezzo & Alain Altinoglu, piano
Place to be confirmed
25 June 2016 – 20:00
L’oiseau de feu Sergey Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky
Orchestre symphonique de la Monnaie
Palais des Beaux-Arts
BIOGRAPHY
Alain Altinoglu regularly conducts such distinguished orchestras as the Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de Lyon, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony, Staatskapelle Dresden, Staatskapelle Berlin, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Bamberger Symphoniker, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Wiener Symphoniker, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
Last season’s opera highlights included a successful debut appearance at London’s Royal Opera House (Don Giovanni). Altinoglu lead new productions of Manon Lescaut at Bayerische Staatsoper München and a world premiere production of Christian Jost’s new opera Rote Laterne in Zürich. This summer Altinoglu gave his debut at Bayreuther Festspiele (Lohengrin). The 2015/16 season will include debut appearances with orchestras such as Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Stockholm Philharmonic, Danish National Symphony, MDR Sinfonieorchester, Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and the Philharmonia Orchestra London as well as new productions at Vienna Staatsoper (Macbeth), Deutsche Oper Berlin (Salome), Zürich (Pélleas) as well as Dimitri Tcherniakov’s new double bill production of Tchaikovsky’s Jolanta & The Nutcracker.
A regular guest at the world’s leading opera houses, Altinoglu appears at the Metropolitan Opera New York, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Teatro Colon Buenos Aires, Staatsoper Wien, Opernhaus Zürich, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper unter den Linden, Bayerische Staatsoper München and all three opera houses in Paris. He has also appeared at the festivals in Salzburg, Orange and Aix-en-Provence.
Alongside his conducting, Altinoglu maintains a strong affinity and command over the Lied repertoire. Regularly accompanying mezzo-soprano Nora Gubisch, their most recent recording for Naïve includes folk songs by de Falla, Obradors, Granados, Berio and Brahms. Other recordings together have included a disc of songs by Henri Duparc (Cascavelle) and Maurice Ravel (Naïve). Naïve also released a recording of Henryk Gorecki’s third symphony together with the Sinfonia Varsovia as well as Tangy’s cello concerto with the Orchestra National de France and Dusapin’s Perelà. Furthermore, Altinoglu recorded with Deutsche Grammophon and Piotr Beczala. Past releases include Lalo’s Fiesque with the Orchestre National de Montpellier and Roberto Alagna for Deutsche Grammophon and Liszt’s Piano Concertos with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and Nareh Arghamanyan for PentaTone. A DVD recording of Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher was released by Accord in 2007 and most recently, a recording of Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer was released on Deutsche Grammophon.
Born in Paris in 1975, Alain Altinoglu studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris where he now teaches.