Jonathan Darlington

Jonathan Darlington (born 1956 Lapworth, England) is a British conductor and the Music Director of the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Vancouver Opera. He is known for his broad repertoire of both opera and symphonic music and appears regularly with major orchestras and opera houses, most notably the Orchestre National de France, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica del San Carlo di Napoli, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, the National Orchestra of Taiwan, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, English National Opera and Opera Australia.

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Education and early career

Jonathan Darlington is a graduate of Durham University and the Royal Academy of Music. Early in his career he had worked with Pierre Boulez, Riccardo Muti and Olivier Messiaen. He made his conducting debut in 1984 at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris with Francesco Cavalli's Ormindo. In 1991 he was appointed deputy to the Music Director Myung-Whun Chung at the Opéra de la Bastille in Paris, where he made his house debut with Le nozze di Figaro. He is the brother of conductor Stephen Darlington.[1]

Recent performances

Recent performances include the world premiere of Manfred Trojahn's La Grande Magia with the Staatskapelle Dresden (May 2008), Gustave Charpentier's Louise with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and the Duisburg Philharmonic (October 2008), and Salome with Vancouver Opera (May 2009). He appeared as a guest conductor with the Strasbourg Philharmonic, the Philharmonisches Orchester Freiburg, and the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra. In August 2009, Darlington returned to Sydney Opera for Beethoven's Fidelio.

In the 2009/10 season, he will conduct The Nightingale & Other Short Fables (a program of short works by Stravinsky, including his opera The Nightingale) in a new production by Robert Lepage for the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto.

Awards

Jonathan Darlington was appointed a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres as well as Fellow (FRAM) of the Royal Academy of Music, London.

Recordings

Discography

With the Orchestre National de France:

With the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra:

With the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra:

Videography

Sources

  1. ^ "Jonathan Darlington". http://www.jonathan-darlington.com/page/4/. Retrieved 24 March 2011. 

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