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Patrick Fournillier - conductor
Invited by
the major opera houses as an expert in Italian and French operatic repertoire,
he performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Bayerische Staatsoper,
the Dresden Semperoper, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, the Maggio
Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, the Washington National Opera, often
collaborating with Placido Domingo. M° Fournillier received the Grand Prix du
Disque for his recording of French opera arias with Natalie Dessay and the
Philharmonic Orchestra of Monte Carlo. During his tenure as Music Director of
the Orchestra Sinfonica Arturo Toscanini in Parma, he linked his name to the
Verdi celebrations in 2001. Patrick Fournillier recently conducted: Don
Pasquale at the Norske Opera in Oslo; Carmen, Les pêcheurs de
perles at the Zurich Opernhaus and Manon Lescaut at the Semperoper in
Dresden. As returning guest at the San Francisco Opera Patrick Fournillier
gained great success conducting Alfano’s Cyrano and Offenbach’s Les
Contes d’Hoffman, while more recently he conducted Il Barbiere di
Siviglia in Palm Beach and Les Pêcheures de perles at the Teatro
Regio in Parma, then on tour in Modena.
Future plans: L’etoile at
the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam; Carmen at the Gran Teatre del Liceu
in Barcelona; Rigoletto at the Festival Internacional de Musica de
Bogotà; Thaïs in Helsinki.
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