Sébastien Rouland

Biography

Sébastien Rouland was born in France. Although he studied violoncello, it became very early obvious that he was to become a conductor. He was initiated by Pierre Cao and Nicolas Brochot.

From 1995 to 2001, Sébastien Rouland was the musical assistent of Marc Minkowski and chorus master of the choir of Les Musiciens du Louvre. Between 2002 and 2004 he was first guest conductor at the Lucerne Opera, where he conducted Lully's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Gluck's Armide, Mozart's Lucio Silla and Die Zauberflöte, Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer and Bizet's Carmen. In the same time, he was a guest at the Marseille Opera (Die Zauberflöte), at the Saint-Etienne Opera (World Premiere of Marianne by Lacamp), at the Opera Comique in Paris (Honegger's Les aventures du Roi Pausole) and at the Wiesbaden Opera (Gluck's Armide).

From 2004 to 2008 he was hired a guest conductor at the Théâtre du Châtelet Paris (Offenbach's La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein), at the Marseille Opera (Britten's Phèdre, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas), at the Angers Nantes Opera (Rossini's La Cenerentola), in Nancy, Rennes and Reims (L'elisir d'amore), at the Opéra national de Lyon (Offenbach's La vie parisienne), at the Tel Aviv Opera (Gluck's Armide) at the Opéra national du Rhin (Bach's Profane Cantatas), at the Freiburg Opera (Idomeneo and Werther), at the Komische Oper Berlin and at the Bergen Festival (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden (Rameau's Platée, Gluck's Armide, J.S. Bach's Johannes Passion, Keisers Croesus) and at the Staatsoper Stuttgart (new production La Juive). In 2008/09 he conducted a new production of Don Giovanni at the Leipzig Opera, Lucio Silla at the Staatsoper Stuttgart, Chabrier's L'amour masqué at the St Etienne Opera, Les Mamelles de Tirésias at the Feldkirch Festival and Samson et Dalila at the St Gall Opera Festival.

His plans for 2009/10 include a new production of Das Paradies und die Peri at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Lucio Silla at the Staatsoper Stuttgart, Steffani's Niobe at the Teatro Sao Carlos in Lisbon, Villa Lobos' Magdalena at the Théâtre du Châtelet and Rossini's Cenerentola at the Mexico City Opera. Further plans include Die Fledermaus at the St Gall Opera, Die Zauberfölte at the Rouen Opera, La Juive as well as a new production of Handel's Il trionfo del tempo at the Staatsoper Stuttgart.

Sébastien Rouland has performed in concert with the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, the Prag Chamber Orchestra, the Sinfonietta Riga, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra in Oslo, the Portugese National Orchestra, the St Gall Symphonie Orchestra, the Camerata Zürich, the Orchestra of the City of Nürnberg, the Orchestra of the Handel Festival in Halle, the Orchestra of the Handel Festival in Karlsruhe, the Staatskapelle in Karlsruhe, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Francfort, the Innsbruck Symphonie Orchestra, the Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy, the Musiciens du Louvre - Grenoble and the Orchestre National de Lyon.

A DVD of La vie parisienne in Lyon is available on the label Virgin Classics (2008).

Mai 2010

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