Laurent Wagner

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Laurent Wagner (* 1960 in Lyon ) is a French conductor .

Training and engagements

Laurent Wagner has been General Music Director at Theater Altenburg / Gera ( Theater & Philharmonie Thuringia ) since September 2013 .

After graduating from high school, Laurent Wagner studied piano, bassoon, composition and chamber music at the Conservatoire régional de Lyon and at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (CNSMDP) before joining Karl Österreicher's Kapellmeister class at the Vienna University of Music in 1982 . There he graduated with honors both in accompaniment practice and in conducting.

Wagner went through the classical career as Kapellmeister after he had developed a large operatic repertoire during his studies. After first positions as a repetitor and Kapellmeister in Heidelberg , Gelsenkirchen , Wuppertal and as maestro interno at the Gran Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona and as 1st Kapellmeister / Deputy General Music Director at the Theater Dortmund , Laurent Wagner was appointed General Music Director at the Saarland State Theater Saarbrücken in 1994 , where he - in addition to concerts and opera premieres with a focus on the German repertoire - projects such as the performance of Messiaen's Turangalîla symphony , Alban Berg's entire orchestral work, whose operas Wozzeck and Lulu and Schönberg's Moses and Aron realized within a cycle of “ Viennese Modernism ”.

His subsequent time as opera director and chief conductor at the Theater St. Gallen increasingly moved the Italian repertoire into the center of his work. His path then led him to the Irish radio orchestra ( RTÉ Concert Orchestra ) as Principal Conductor . He has also conducted opera productions at Opera Ireland in Dublin, including the Irish premiere of Richard Strauss' Salome . Since 2006 he has also devoted himself increasingly to training young singers in the opera field. In 2006 and 2007 he taught at the International Vocal Arts Institute (IVAI) in Tel Aviv, where he studied Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio and Le nozze di Figaro with young singers , and as a visiting professor at the Paris Conservatory and, since 2013, at the Conservatory in Rennes.

Numerous radio recordings, concert recordings and CDs testify to the breadth and diversity of his artistic work. Laurent Wagner works as a guest conductor in and outside Europe. In the concert area, he has conducted the Beethoven Hall Orchestra in Bonn, the Bamberg Symphony , the Erfurt Philharmonic Orchestra , the Munich Symphony Orchestra , the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra , the Mecklenburg State Orchestra Schwerin , the Irish State Orchestra (RTÉNSO), at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival in Bantry / Ireland, the Strasbourg Philharmonic , the Orchester National du Capitole de Toulouse and in Freiburg im Breisgau, Magdeburg, Osnabrück, Plauen / Saxony, Zwickau, Graz, St. Gallen, Bordeaux, Porto, Verona, Tallinn, São Paulo, Beijing and Tokyo . In the operatic field he has conducted at the Deutsche Oper Berlin ( Aida ), at the Leipzig Opera ( La Cenerentola ) and ( La Bohème ), at the Chemnitz Opera House ( Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ), at the Bielefeld Theater ( La belle Hélène ), at the theater Basel (Swiss premiere of Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims and Carmen ), at the Graz Opera ( Der Rosenkavalier and Il trovatore ), in Cosenza / Calabria ( Carmen ), at the Opera Zuid in Maastricht ( Un ballo in maschera and La Bohème ).

World premieres and premieres

Awards

In 2007 Laurent Wagner was appointed Chevalier des Ordre national du Mérite by the French President for his long service as ambassador of French music .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Boosey & Hawkes
  2. ^ Schott Verlag
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Laurent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyon , France