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Jean-Luc Tingaud - conductor
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. A specialist of French repertoire,
from 2002 – 2007 he was Associate Conductor of the Opéra Comique where recent
projects have included Donizetti’s Rita, Adam’s Le toréador,
Saint-Saëns’s La princesse jaune, Boieldieu’s Le calife de
Bagdad, Offenbach’s Les bavards, Poulenc’s Les mamelles de Tirésias and
Ibert’s Angélique.Since 2006 he has been Associate Conductor of the Grand
Théâtre de Reims where he also conducted La Damnation de Faust. 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
conducted in the UK include the Ulster Orchestra and the Orchestra of Opera
North.
Opera has always been one of Jean-Luc Tingaud’s main interests. He has
conducted Fauré’sPénélope, Massenet’s Sapho and Auber’s Manon
Lescaut at the Wexford Festival, Hahn’s Ciboulette for Opera Zuid,
Offenbach’s L’île de Tulipatan at the Opéra National de Lyon, Le nozze
di Figaro at the Théâtre Mogador in Paris, and La voix humaine and La
Périchole in Compiègne.
Recent engagements have included Mireille, L’elisir d’amore, La
bohème, Così fan tutte andCarmen 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,Dialogues des carmélites in
Saint-Etienne, Riders to the Sea in Reims, Véronique in Metz andPelléas
et Mélisande at the Opéra de Toulon. More recently he conducted: Les
Nuits d'Eté in Genoa; Pelléas et Mélisande in Prague and Rennes;
Le Roi malgré lui at the Wexford Festival Opera; The Turn of the Screw in
Massy; Madama Butterfly and Les dialogues des Carmelites in
Pittsburgh; L’Heure espagnole in Paris; Le Roi d'Ys in Montpellier
and Paris; Carmen at the Opéra de Toulon; Die Schöpfung in
Belfast; series of concerts in Parma with the Orchestra Toscanini, and in Paris
at the Opéra. Engagements past season include concerts with the Krakow
Philharmonic (including Stravinsky The Rite of Spring), the Orchestra of
the Opéra d’Avignon, Ulster Orchestra for the BBC Summer Series.
Future plans include:
La Bohème at the Salle Pleyel in Paris; La Fille du Régiment
in Madrid; Coppelia at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo and series of
concerts in Dublin and Glasgow
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