Chef d'Orchestre
Chef d'Orchestre
(c) Thomas Dubuis
Chef d'Orchestre
Forthcoming events
Opera Repertoire
ADAMS -A Flowering Tree
BEETHOVEN- Fidelio
BELLINI-Norma
Capuletti e Montecchi
BERLIOZ-Béatrice et Bénédict
La Damnation de Faust (Intégrale)
BIZET-Les Pêcheurs de Perles
Carmen
CHABRIER-Briséis
L’Etoile
DEBUSSY-Pelléas et Mélisande
DONIZETTI-L’Elisir d’amore
Don Pasquale
Maria Stuarda
FAURE- Pénélope
GLUCK-Iphigénie en Tauride
GOUNOD-Faust
Roméo et Juliette
Mireille
HAYDN-Armida
HONEGGER- L’Aiglon
IBERT-L’Aiglon
JANACEK-Katia Kabanova
LALO-Le Roi d’Ys
LEHAR-Die lustige Witwe
MARTIN-Monsieur de Pourceaugnac
MASCAGNI-Cavalliera Rusticana
MASSENET-Manon
Werther
Thaïs
Cendrillon
MENOTTI-Amahl
MOZART- Cosi fan tutte
Le Nozze di Figaro
Don Giovanni
Idomeneo
La Clemenza di Tito
Die Zauberflöte
MAGNARD-Bérénice
OFFENBACH-La Vie Parisienne (4/5 acts)
Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Choudens, Oeser, Kaye/Schott)
La Belle Hélène
La Périchole
POULENC-Dialogues des Carmélites
La Voix Humaine
PUCCINI-La Bohème
Tosca
Madama Butterfly
Il Tabarro
Suor Angelica
Gianni Schicchi
La Rondine
Turandot
ROSSINI-Il Barbiere di Siviglia
La Cenerentola
L’Italiana in Algeri
ROPARTZ-Le Pays
SAINT SAENS-Samson et Dalila
STRAUSS Richard-Ariadne auf Naxos
STRAUSS J-Fledermaus
TCHAIKOVSKY-Eugene Oneguine
VERDI-Traviata
Rigoletto
Un Ballo in maschera
Don Carlo (5 acts)
Simon Boccanegra
Falstaff
Macbeth
WAGNER-Tristan und Isolde
WEBER-Der Freischütz
Biography
Since 1991, Jean-Yves Ossonce has lead an international career. His discography includes Magnard’s Symphonies, Massenet’s Suites pour orchestre, Hahn’s and Massenet’s Concertos pour piano, and Ropartz’ Le Pays (Deutschen Schallplaten Preis).
The former director of the Tours Opera and the Orchestre Symphonique Région Centre-Val de Loire, he has been especially involved in regional musical life. With this orchestra, he has recorded Déodat de Séverac’s Le Cœur du moulin and Ropartz’ Symphony no. 3, which have both received multiple awards.
He has performed in many opera houses: the Welsh National Opera, Opera North, the Edinburgh Festival, the Slovak Philharmonic, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, the Hamburg Staatsoper, the San Francisco Opera, the Minnesota Opera, the Montreal Opera, the Warsaw Philharmonic, Trieste, Toulouse, the Lausanne Opera, the Prague Festival, the Grand Théâtre in Geneva, the Théâtre du Châtelet…
He combines the great repertoire with rarer works. In the coming months, his work will bring him to Marseille and Lausanne. He has been presented with two Claude Rostant awards from the Syndicat professionnel de la critique: once for Ropartz’ Le Pays (2008) and again for Magnard’s Bérénice (2014).
He is a Knight in the Legion of Honour.
More recently, he has performed Le Dernier jour d'un Condamné at the Marseille Opera House, Carmen in Shanghai,Massenet's Herodiade at the Saint-Etienne Opera House.
Among his projects, Thaïs in Monte-Carlo...