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, at the Bayerische Staatsoper, at the Dresden Semperoper, at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, at the Washington National Opera, often collaborating with Placido Domingo. 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 also 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 a 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, Les Pêcheures de perles at the Teatro Regio in Parma, then on tour in Modena, Thaïs in Helsinki and in Los Angeles, L’Etoile in Amsterdam, Rigoletto in Bogotà, Giselle at La Scala in Milan, Aida at the Polish National Opera and series of concerts with the Warsaw Philharmonic in Warsaw and series of concerts in Naples. M° Fournillier received the Grand Prix du Disque for his recording of French opera arias with Natalie Dessay and the Orchestre Philarmonique de Monte-Carlo.

Plans include: revivals of Aida in Warsaw; Thaïs at the Salzburger Festspiele; revivals of Giselle and Coppélia at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan; Manon in Bilbao; La fille du régiment in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Il Trovatore in Helsinki; Roméo et Juliette in Beijing.