Jonathan Darlington

www.jonathan-darlington.com
www.jonathan-darlington.de

- Music director of the Duisburger Philharmonic Orchestra and Vancouver Opera; graduate of Durham University and the Royal Academy of Music; conducting debut in 1984 at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Paris, with Francesco Cavalli’s baroque opera “Ormindo”; and in 1991 assistant to the Music Director Myung-Whun Chung at the Paris Opéra with “Le nozze di Figaro”.
- Regular guest at the Orchestre National de France, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra Sinfonica del San Carlo di Napoli, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, the National Orchestra of Taiwan, the Warsaw Philharmonic, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Bordeaux-Aquitaine, the English National Opera, and Sydney Opera.
- Recent operatic successes include the world premiere of Manfred Trojahn’s “La Grande Magia” with the Dresden Staatskapelle, “Le Nozze di Figaro” with Norwegian Opera, “Fidelio” for Opera Australia as well as Stravinsky’s “The Nightingale and other short fables” – a conception by the stage director Robert Lepage for the Canadian Opera Company, Toronto. - - Most recent live recordings are Debussy’s “La Mer” and Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring”, Wagner’s “Symphonic Ring” (arr. Dressler) and Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with Susanna Yoko-Henkel.
- Awards and disticntions: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, 'Fellow' of the Royal Academy of Music, London (FRAM).