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Alain ALTINOGLU |
Alain Altinoglu makes his musical studies
at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. He
teaches there nearly ten years and become most particularly teacher of
the vocal ensemble class.
He conducts many orchestras among which: Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Orchestre de Paris, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Philharmonique de Radio-France, Berlin Staatskapelle, Sinfonia Varsovia, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Orchestre National d’Ile-de-France, Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, Orchestre de Lyon, Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine, Orchestre National de Montpellier…
He is invited by such opera houses as Opera National de Paris, Theatre du Châtelet, Opera of San Francisco, Theatre des Champs-Elysées, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Opera de Bordeaux, Festival d’Aix en Provence or Salzburg Festival, Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires, Staatsoper Berlin.
Attracted by the melody and the Lied, he forms for several years a duet with the mezzo-soprano Nora Gubisch.
He records for the label Naive the cello concertos by Tanguy with the Orchestra National de France, the Serment by Tansman with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, Perelà by Pascal Dusapin with the Orchestre National de Montpellier, the Symphony n°3 by Gorecki with Sinfonia Varsovia, and the film of Jeanne au Bucher by Honneger at the Festival de Radio-France Montpellier.
Recently he did Falstaff with the Orchestre de Paris at the Theatre des Champs-Elysées, Romeo and Juliette by Dusapin with the Orchestre Intercontemporain at the Paris Opera Comic, Aïda at the Montpellier Opéra, Faust at the Berlin Staatsoper, Barbe-Bleue by Bartók at the Montpellier Opéra,
Among his projects: Salome and
l’Amour des Trois Orange at the Opera National de Paris, Carmen
and a new production of Faust at the Metropolitan Opera House, Carmen
at the Chicago Opera, Die Zauberflöte at the Bayerische Staatsoper,
Orphée aux Enfers at the Festival d’Aix en Provence, Faust,
Romeo et Juliette, Falstaff at the Wiener Staatsoper, Mireille at the
Chorégies d’Orange, Samson et Dalila at the Deutsche Oper
Berlin, Der Fliegende Holländer at the Zürich Opera, Rigoletto
at the Köln Opera…
He will also conduct several concerts with Orchestre National de France,
Orchestre de Paris and Berlin Konzerthaus Orchester.
As from season 2007/2008, Alain Altinoglu is principal conductor of the Orchestre National de Montpellier.