Louis Langrée

Louis Langrée has been appointed Director of the Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique by Emmanuel Macron, President of the Republic, on the recommendation of Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, Minister of Culture. He took up his post on 1 November 2021 for a 5-year term.

Louis Langrée was born in Mulhouse in 1961. After studying at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, he began his career as a conductor and then assistant conductor at the Opéra de Lyon and the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, then at the Orchestre de Paris and the Bayreuth Festival.
He has been Music Director of the Orchestre de Picardie and the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, the Opéra national de Lyon and the Glyndebourne Touring Opera, and Principal Conductor of the Salzburg Camerata.

In the United States, he was Music Director of the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center in New York for 21 years, and of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra for 11 years, two institutions to which he invited numerous French artists and ensembles.

As a symphony conductor, he has conducted the Berlin, Vienna, London, New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestras, as well as the Orchestre de Paris and the Orchestre National de France. He also performs with ensembles on period instruments (Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Freiburger Barockorchester, Concert d'Astrée, etc.), and is a regular guest at festivals such as the Wiener Festwochen, Prague Spring, Salzburg Mozartwoche, BBC Prom's in London, the Hong Kong Arts Festival and the Hollywood Bowl.

He has conducted numerous opera productions at the Vienna Staatsoper, La Scala in Milan, the Royal Opera House-Covent Garden in London, the Opéra national de Paris, and the Glyndebourne, Edinburgh and Aix-en-Provence festivals.

An ambassador for the French operatic repertoire, he has conducted Iphigénie en Tauride, Dialogues des Carmélites, Carmen and Hamlet at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and Fortunio, Pelléas et Mélisande, Le Comte Ory, Hamlet, Carmen and L'Heure espagnole, Zémire et Azor and Le Domino noir at the Opéra-Comique. Three of these productions have been released on DVD and have received critical acclaim: Diapason d'Or of the Year, Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros, Prix Caecilia, Diamant de Opéra magazine, ‘Best Recording of the Year’ at the International Opera Awards and ‘Best Video Performance’ at the International Classical Music Awards.
 
Louis Langrée is a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.