Serge Baudo

Serge Baudo (born July 16, 1927, Marseille) is a French conductor, the son of the oboist Étienne Baudo. He is the nephew of the cellist Paul Tortelier.

Baudo was conductor of the Orchestra of Radio Nice from 1959 to 1962. He then served as permanent conductor at the Paris Opera from 1962 to 1965. Baudo worked on the music for the 1964 Jacques-Yves Cousteau film World Without Sun.^[1] He conducted the world premiere in Marseille of the opera Andrea del Sarto by Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur in January 1969.^[2] Baudo became music director of the Orchestre philharmonique Rhône-Alpes, later the Orchestre National de Lyon, in 1971, and served in this post until 1987. During his time in Lyon, he founded the Berlioz Festival, in 1979.^[3]

Baudo was principal conductor of the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana from 1997 to 2000, and of the Prague Symphony Orchestra from 2001 to 2006. His other work with Czech orchestras includes a set of recordings of the complete symphonies of Arthur Honegger with the Czech Philharmonic.

References

^ Bosley Crowther (23 December 1964). "Movie Review: World Without Sun (1964) (Movie of Undersea Study at Cinema II)". New York Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?_r=2&res=9B04E7D91E3BE13ABC4B51DFB467838F679EDE&. Retrieved 2010-02-21.
^ Thomson, Andrew (July 1991). "Daniel-Lesur: The Athenian of Paris". The Musical Times 132 (1781): 333–336. http://www.jstor.org/stable/966282. Retrieved 2010-02-21.
^ Macdonald, Hugh, "Reports: Lyons" (1980). The Musical Times, 121 (1653): p. 724.

Preceded by Louis Frémaux	Music Director, Orchestre National de Lyon 1971–1987	Succeeded by Emmanuel Krivine
Preceded by Nicholas Carthy	Principal Conductor, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana 1997–2000	Succeeded by Alain Lombard
Preceded by Gaetano Delogu	Principal Conductor, Prague Symphony Orchestra 2001–2006	Succeeded by Jiří Kout

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