Marc Albrecht
Conductor
“Marc Albrecht who again offers something much more than some of his more prominent colleagues, leads the music with a flexibility, which emphasises the smooth sensuality of this twelve-tone score.” Peter Hagmann, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, August 2010
This press quote is an example for the numerous reviews about Marc Albrecht’s conducting of Berg’s “Lulu” at the Salzburg Festival in August 2010. Marc Albrecht is Chief Conductor Designate of both the Netherlands Opera and Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. He spent several seasons at the opera houses of Hamburg and Dresden, and also was appointed personal assistant to Claudio Abbado at the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra. In 1995 he embarked on a highly successful 6 year tenure as Music Director of the Staatstheater Darmstadt, and since 2006, he has held the position of Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg.
Marc Albrecht has appeared with many key orchestras in Europe including the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Staatskapelle Dresden, Munich Philharmonic, and the Orchestre National de Lyon. In 2006 he made his BBC Proms debut in London with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Recent successes have included debut performances with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Residentie Orkest (The Hague), Orchestre National de France, Maggio Musicale Firenze and the SWR Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart. Future highlights include debuts with the Gotheburg Symphony, Bergen Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony and performances with the Filarmoniea della Scala, Orchestra Nazionale Sinfonica della RAI Torino and the Wiener Symphoniker.
In the opera house, Marc Albrecht’s highly acclaimed work during the past seasons has included a new production of Der fliegende Holländer at the Bayreuth Festival (2003 – 2006), Die Bacchantinnen by Wellesz at the Salzburg Festival (2003) as well as Janacek’s From the House of the Dead at the Opéra National de Paris (2005). From 2001-2004 he was Principal Guest Conductor at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, leading successful productions such as Messiaen’s Saint Francois d’Assise, and he also maintains a close relationship with the Semperoper Dresden, where amongst others he has conducted Wozzeck, Le Damnation de Faust, Die Frau ohne Schatten and Elektra.
Recent highlights include Henze’s Die Bassariden at the Bavarian State Opera, Fidelio and Carmen at the Netherlands Opera, his debut at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden with Der fliegende Holländer, Henze’s Der Prinz von Homburg at Vienna’s Theater an der Wien, and Lulu at the Geneva Opera and at the Salzburg Festival (with the Vienna Philharmonic). Forthcoming productions include a double bill of Zemlinsky’s Eine Florentinische Tragödie and Der Zwerg at the Teatro Liceu in Barcelona, and Tannhäuser and Die Soldaten at Zurich Opera: In 2011/12, his first season as Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Opera, he will conduct Elektra, The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the world premiere of Manfred Trojahn’s Orest.
Marc Albrecht has made a sequence of acclaimed Pentatone recordings with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, including discs of Strauss tone poems, the piano concertos of Dvorak and Schumann with Martin Helmchen, a disc of French works by Dukas, Koechlin and Ravel, and Work of Berg and Korngold.
SEASON 2011/2012
