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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’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.
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