After
studying the piano and conducting at the Paris National Conservatoire,
Jean-Luc Tingaud was chosen by Manuel Rosenthal to be his assistant.
Rosenthal, himself a pupil of Maurice Ravel, was a formative influence,
instilling in the younger man his passion for French music.
In 1997 he founded Ostinato, a
Paris based chamber orchestra that performed in many different venues
throughout France, including the Opéra Comique in Paris, the
Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the Opéra de Bordeaux, the Théâtre de
l’Athénée, the Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne and many of the most
prestigious French festivals.
Opera has always been one of Jean-Luc Tingaud's main interests. He has conducted Fauré’s Pénélope, Massenet's Sapho, Auber's Manon Lescaut and Chabrier’s Le roi malgré lui at the Wexford Festival, Hahn's Ciboulette for Opera Zuid, Offenbach’s L’île de Tulipatan at the Opéra National de Lyon and Le nozze di Figaro
at the Théâtre Mogador in Paris, and from 2002 to 2007 he was Associate
Conductor of the Opéra Comique. Recent engagements have included Mireille, L’elisir d’amore, La bohème, Così fan tutte, Carmen and Faust at the Théâtre d'Herblay in Paris, Berlioz's Roméo et Juliette at the Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos in Lisbon, Tosca in Besançon, Werther at the Festival della Valle d'Itria in Martina Franca, La damnation de Faust in Reims, Véronique in Metz, Pelléas et Mélisande and Carmen at the Opéra de Toulon, Hahn’s Mozart at the Spoleto Festival, Carmen for Palm Beach Opera, Le siège de Corinthe at the Rossini Festival in Wildbad, Faust at the Macerata Festival, The Turn of the Screw at the Opéra de Lille, Pelléas et Mélisande in Rennes, L’heure espagnole with l’Atelier Lyrique de l’Opéra de Paris, Dialogues des carmélites and Madama Butterfly for Pittsburgh Opera and Pelléas et Mélisande at the Prague National Theatre.
In 2004 he made his London debut at the Barbican
conducting the English Chamber Orchestra with soloists Joshua Bell and
Steven Isserlis. Other orchestras he has worked with include the Ulster
Orchestra, the Orchestra of Opera North, the Orchestra Filarmonica
Arturo Toscanini, the Orchestra of the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova,
the Orchestra of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the Warsaw and Krakow
Philharmonic Orchestras, the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire,
Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse,
Orchestre National de Lorraine, Orchestre de Picardie and Orchestre de
Bretagne.
Mr Tingaud recently conducted Les pecheurs des perles at the English National Opera; La Bohème (concert version) with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Salle Pleyel; Roméo et Juliette at the Arena in Verona; Faust in Macerata; La Fille du Régiment in Madrid; a series of concerts in Dublin, Glasgow, Krakow, Parma (Fondazione Toscanini) and Vincennes; La Pré aux Clercs by Hérold at the Wexford Opera House, where he has came back for the production of Herculanum; Coppelia at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Adam’s Le Toreador in Rennes; Carmen at the Grange Park Opera in London; Poulenc’s Gloria with the Orchestre Philarmonique da Radio France in Paris; Faust in Modena; Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Grange Park Opera; Carmen at the New National Theatre in Tokyo; La Bohéme at the Pittsburgh Opera; Spontini's Fernand Cortez at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; L'Ange de Nisida at the Festival Donizetti in Bergamo; and a symphonic concert with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana in Palermo.
His discography includes Sapho recorded at Wexford (Fonè), Werther recorded at Martina Franca (Dynamic), La voix humaine recorded at Compiègne (DVD) and Le siège de Corinthe
(Naxos) recorded at Bad Wildbad. He has recently recorded three CDs for
Naxos: two of them with the RTE National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin
(one with music by Dukas and the other with music by Bizet), the third
CD with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (music by d'Indy).
He will conduct Lakmé in Beijing.
February 2020