Johannes Debus
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Johannes Debus
(Conductors) Biography:
Canadian Opera Company Music Director Johannes Debus made his COC debut conducting War and Peace in 2008. He obtained his musical education at Hamburg Conservatorium, before being engaged at Oper Frankfurt in 1998 as répétiteur and Kapellmeister. There he acquired an extensive repertoire ranging from Mozart's Entführung and works by Rossini, Verdi, Gounod, Massenet and Wagner to Strauss' Frau ohne Schatten and Berg's Lulu. Among the conductors he worked with are Paolo Carignani, Markus Stenz and Sebastian Weigle. Johannes Debus is at home both in contemporary music and the regular repertoire. He has conducted a wide range of world premieres and works of the 20th and 21st century, among them Salvatore Sciarrino's Macbeth and Luciano Berio's Un re in ascolto. He has cooperated with internationally acclaimed ensembles such as "Ensemble Intercontemporain", "Ensemble Modern", "Klangforum Wien" and "Musikfabrik". As a guest conductor he has appeared at important festivals such as the Biennale di Venezia, the Schwetzinger Festspiele, the Festival d'Automne, the Lincoln Center Festival, the Ruhrtriennale and Suntory Summer Festival. He has conducted renowned orchestras such as the RSO Stuttgart, the Orchestra della RAI Torino and the Staatskapelle Halle among others, and he has been engaged as a guest conductor Deutsche Oper Berlin. In 2007 he made his debut at the English National Opera with an acclaimed new production of Philipp Glass' Satyagraha. In 2008 he made his debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper München with Strauss' Elektra and at the Opéra National de Lyon with Toshio Hosokawa's Hanjo. At Oper Frankfurt he conducted a new production of Janáceks The Excursions of Mr Broucek and a double bill of de Falla's La vida breve and Ravel's L'heure espagnole. In 2007 he made his debut at the English National Opera with an acclaimed new production of Philipp Glass' Satyagraha. In 2008 he made his debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper München with Strauss' Elektra and at the Opéra National de Lyon with Toshio Hosokawa's Hanjo. At Oper Frankfurt at the Vienna Volksoper, Landestheater Innsbruck, Cologne Opera, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and the he conducted a new production of Janáceks The Excursions of Mr Broucek, a double bill of de Falla's La vida breve and Ravel's L'heure espagnole and most recently a new production of Thomas Adès' The Tempest. The 2010 season has seen Johannes Debus conducting The Flying Dutchman for Canadian Opera Company, to which he will return later in the year to conduct Verdi’s Aida. He has also returned to Bayerische Staatsoper for performances of Strauss's Salome and Mozart's Entführung and conducts Henze’s Gogo no Eiko at the Spoleto Festival as well as making his debut at Tanglewood with the Boston Symphony Orchestra ina concert performance Entführung. In the 2010/11 season, Johannes Debus will conduct Die Zauberflӧte for COC, Hӓnsel und Gretel for Bayerische Staatsoper and Wolfgang Rihm’s Dionysus at the Staatsoper unter den Linden in Berlin. This biography is for website use only. For a full and updated biography please email info@ingpen.co.uk Contact Details: Territories: |
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