Jonathan Darlington
Jonathan Darlington (* 1956 Lapworth, Warwickshire , England), conductor, was General Music Director of the Duisburg Philharmonic from 2002 to 2011 and is Music Director of the Vancouver Opera in Canada .
Professional background
Darlington studied music at the University of Durham and the Royal Academy of Music in London. He began his conducting career at Radio France . He has mastered a broad repertoire and his programs include both standard symphonic works as well as works from the baroque and modern times. Numerous world premieres and first performances testify to the wide range of his skills.
During his time at Radio France, Darlington worked with some of the greatest musical personalities of our time, such as: B. Pierre Boulez , Riccardo Muti and Olivier Messiaen , together. Further engagements took him to the Glyndebourne Festival, the Berlioz Festival in Lyon and the Scottish Opera in Glasgow. He made his debut in 1984 at the Paris Théâtre des Champs Elysées with Francesco Cavallis Ormindo . In 1991 he was appointed by Myung-Whun Chung as assistant to the general music director at the Opéra de la Bastille in Paris, where he made his debut with Le nozze di Figaro . In the following years this activity led him to some of the most important international opera houses.
Since 2001 Darlington has worked regularly with the Orchester National de France . Guest concerts and opera productions connect him u. a. with the Lausanne Opera House (Britten's Rape of Lucretia and Mozart's Lucio Silla ), the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf / Duisburg (including Manfred Trojahn's Was Ihr Wollt , Verdi's Falstaff , Mozart's Abduction , Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen ), the Theater des Champs Elysées, Paris (including Stravinsky's Rake's Progress , Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen ), the Bordeaux Opera House (including Verdi's Macbeth , La Traviata ), the Orchester Philharmonique de Strasbourg , the Hamburg State Opera , the Teatro San Carlo (Naples), the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, the Prague Radio orchestra, the Orchester Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, the Orchester National Bordeaux, the BBC Orchestra or the National Orchestra of Taiwan. In June 2005 he successfully directed the new production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin at the English National Opera . Jonathan Darlington has conducted Verdi's Un ballo in maschera and La Traviata as well as Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Vancouver Opera House in recent years, which has received great audiences and press . In June 2006 Darlington made her debut with great success with a new production of Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito at the Sydney Opera House . In September 2006 he conducted the international press acclaimed new production of Verdi's La Traviata at the English National Opera.
He celebrated his most recent successes with the world premiere of Manfred Trojahn's La grande magia (May 2008) with the Staatskapelle Dresden, Gustave Charpentier's Louise (October 2008) at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein with the Duisburg Philharmonic and Tchaikovsky's Salome (May 2009) at the Vancouver Opera . In August 2009 he returned to the Sydney Opera for Beethoven's Fidelio .
Jonathan Darlington is married and lives in Paris.
Prizes and awards
Jonathan Darlington's awards include the appointment of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, London. In 2011 he received the music prize of the city of Duisburg .
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| SURNAME | Darlington, Jonathan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lapworth, England |