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’s Pénélope, 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 and Carmen 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 and Pelléas et Mélisande at the Opéra de Toulon. More recently he conducted: le Nuits d'Eté in Genoa; Pelléas et Mélisande in Prague; 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; Pelléas et Mélisande in Rennes; L’Heure espagnole in Paris; Le Roi d'Ys in Montpellier and Paris; Carmen at the Opéra de Toulon.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: Die Schöpfung in Belfast; Les Pecheures de Perles in London (English National Opera); a series of concerts in Parma with the Orchestra Toscanini, and in Paris at the Opéra.