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Jean-Yves OSSONCE |
Since his debuts in England in 1991, Jean-Yves Ossonce often plays with BBC operas and orchestras. Invited by the Edinburgh Festival in 1994 , he conducted Briseis by Chabrier (recorded for Hyperion) and Penelope by Fauré.
Apart this work, his discography includes the Complete Symphonies by Alberic Magnard, Suites for Orchestra by Massenet, the concertos by Hahn and Massenet and an opera by Ropartz, “Le Pays”, distinguished by the French magazine Classica as one of best 2002 recordings, and received the “Platinum Stamp” from Opera International, and the “Preis der Deutschen Schallplatten Kritik” in Germany.
Since his nomination as conductor of the Tours Symphony Orchestra and Opera in 1999, he is received and celebrated in some of the greatest French opera houses, and also concentrates on an intense international career in such institutions as: Welsh National Opera, English National Opera, Korean Symphony Orchestra, Edinburg Festival, Belgium National Orchestra de, Philharmonie Slovaque, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Amsterdam, Staatsoper Hamburg, Holland Symfonia, Warsaw National Philharmonic, Teatro Verdi Trieste, Capitole de Toulouse, Leipzig Radio Orchestra, Opera de Lausanne, Angers-Nantes Opera, Opera National de Montpellier, Opera d’Avignon, Orchestre de la Monnaie in Bruxelles (concert with Natalie Dessay).
His repertoire includes a vast range of the lyrical and symphonic works, mixing works of the great repertoire and more rarely played works such as Frank Martin or Ambroise Thomas.
He recently conducted a concert at the Athens International Festival with June Anderson and Beatrice Uria-Monzon, and at the Teatro la Fenice.
Last September, he was invited by the Prague International Festival (conducting the Prague Chamber Orchestra). He just produced himself at the Opera de Montreal (Romeo and Juliette by Gounod) that immediately re-invited him for season 2009/10. Furthermore, his concludes the 2007/08 season of the San Francisco Opera, conducting a revival of the Met new production of Lucia di Lammermoor with Nathalie Dessay.
Next season, amongst other new
productions he will conduct Tosca at the Angers-Nantes Opera, Madama Butterfly
at the Lausanne Opera, the creation La Pastorale by Gérard Pesson
at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, Faust in Minnesota, L’Etoile
by Chabrier in Geneva, Cendrillon by Massenet in Montreal.