Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris 23-24 © E. Bauer - OnP

Hector Berlioz

Concert by the Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus

Hector Berlioz - Requiem

Coming from an artistic Swiss family, Philippe Jordan’s is regarded as one of the most established and important conductors of our time. He has been appointed Music Director of the Wiener Staatsoper beginning in September 2020. 
Jordan started his career at the age of 20 as musical director at Theater Ulm. In 1998 he became assistant to Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin State Opera. From 2001-2004 he was principal conductor of Graz Opera and the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra. During this period he also debuted at several of the world’s leading opera houses and festivals, for example the Metropolitan Opera New York, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Teatro alla Scala, Bavarian State Opera, the Wiener Staatsoper and Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, and the festivals of Aix-en-Provence, Glyndebourne and Salzburg. From 2006-2010 Jordan returned to the Berlin State Opera as principal guest conductor. During this time he also appeared regularly in his hometown at the Zurich Opera. In the summer of 2012 Philippe Jordan debuted at the Bayreuth Festival. In Summer 2021, Philippe Jordan will leave his post as musical director of the Opéra national de Paris, which he has helmed since 2009. During his time as musical director in Paris he has conducted numerous premieres and revivals, including Moses und Aaron, La Damnation de Faust, Der Rosenkavalier, Samson et Dalila, Lohengrin, Don Carlos (French original version), Benvenuto Cellini, Bérénice and Les Troyens, Don Giovanni and the new production of Borodin’s Prince Igor. In his last season as musical director at Opéra national de Paris he will conduct Wagner’s “Ring” cycle in a concert version. 
As a symphonic conductor, Philippe Jordan has conducted the world’s most famous orchestras. He has also been principal conductor of the Wiener Symphoniker from 2014 to 2020. Together with the orchestra he has developed complete cycles of Schubert’s symphonies and Beethoven’s symphonies and piano concerti, and a cycle of J. S. Bach’s major masses and oratorios. In a three-part Bruckner project at the Wiener Musikverein, he performed the composer’s seventh, eighth and ninth symphonies in a contrast-filled dialogue with modern classics by Kurtág, Ligeti and Scelsi. For the Beethoven anniversary year, he also performed a reconstruction of the legendary Grand Concert of 22 December 1808 with performances in Paris and Vienna. 
His recording work with the Paris Opera Orchestra includes discs of Strauss’ Eine Alpensinfonie, Stravinski’s The Rite of Spring, Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé, Verdi’s Requiem and Beethoven’s and Tchaikovsky’s Symphonies.

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A graduate of the National Normal University of Taiwan, Ching-Lien Wu continued her studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon, where she was awarded the First Prize in Choral Conducting in 1987. She took part in conducting courses and masterclasses with Jean-Sébastien Béreau, Helmut Rilling, Michael Gielen, and Pierre Boulez. In 1989, she was appointed Head Vocal Coach at the Opéra de Nantes, and in 1990, Assistant Chorus Master at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse.From 1991 to 2001, she served as Chorus Master of the Opéra National du Rhin, and from 2001 to 2014, as Chorus Master of the Grand Théâtre de Genève. Between 2002 and 2012, she also conducted numerous concerts with her own ensemble, Le Motet de Genève. In September 2014, she was appointed Chorus Master of the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam. Since 1996, she has been giving choral conducting masterclasses at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon.In her native country, she has overseen the musical preparation for several operatic productions, notably The Barber of Seville, an opera for which she also directed the stage production in Taipei. Ching-Lien Wu was appointed Chorus Master of the Paris Opera in February 2021. She is a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.

The Samoan Pene Pati performs on the major international opera stages. In recent seasons, he has made numerous debuts, notably in the roles of Roméo (Roméo et Juliette) at the San Francisco Opera, Opéra Comique and Opéra national de Bordeaux, Alfredo (La Traviata) at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin and Opéra national d'Amsterdam, Des Grieux (Manon) at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Rodolfo (La Bohème) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Fernand (La Favorite) at Opéra national de Bordeaux, the title role in Mitridate, re di Ponto at Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor) at Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Percy (Anne Bolena) at the Vienna Staatsoper, the Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto) at the Opéra de Rouen and the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, and Amenophis (Moses and Pharaoh) at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. Last season, Pene Pati returned to Berlin's Staatsoper Unter den Linden for Rigoletto, made his debut at the Hamburg Staatsoper in Manon and at Berlin's Deutsche Oper in La Traviata, and appeared in La Bohème at Toronto's Canadian Opera Company, L'Élixir d'amour at San Francisco Opera and La Clémence de Titus at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. In the 2024-2025 season, he makes his Metropolitan Opera debut in New York as the Duke of Mantua, and appears as Rodolfo in London, Munich, Chicago and San Francisco, and in the title role of Werther in Geneva. Pene Pati records exclusively for Warner Classics. His first album won the Opus Klassik prize in the Revelation of the Year category and Opera Magazine's Readers' Choice Award, and his second album, “Nessun Dorma”, will be released in September 2024.At the Opéra national de Paris: L'Élixir d'amour (Nemorino), 2021; Beatrice di Tenda (Orombello), 2024

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