Jonathan Philip Darlington (born 1956 in Lapworth, England) is a British conductor, Music Director Emeritus of the Vancouver Opera and the former Music Director of the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra. [1] 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 Paris Opera, Vienna State Opera, Frankfurt Oper, 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.
Jonathan Darlington was educated at The King's School, Worcester. He graduated in 1978 with a music degree from Durham University, where he was a member of Hatfield College. [2] He subsequently studied at 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 CBE Stephen Darlington. [3]
From 2002 to 2011, Darlington was Generalmusikdirektor of the Duisburg Philharmonic. [4] Until 2018, he was musical director at the Vancouver Opera in Canada. [4] In 2022, Darlington was presented as new Generalmusikdirektor of the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra and received a contract for five years. [4]
Recent performances include Verdi's Otello (January 2020), Puccini's Madama Butterfly (October 2019), Rossini's L'Elisir d'Amore and Verdi's Don Carlos (September 2019) at the Vienna State Opera, Gounod's Faust at Vancouver Opera (May 2019), Puccini's La Bohème at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm (February 2019) and Beethoven's Fidelio . at the Semperoper Dresden (October 2018).
In 2008 he led the world premiere of Manfred Trojahn's La Grande Magia with the Staatskapelle Dresden (May 2008).
Thanks to his background as a harpsichordist, he also has considerable experiences conducting historically informed performances of Mozart, Rossini, Cavalli's L'Ormindo), Tritto (Il Convitato di Pietra o Don Giovanni) and Gustave Charpentier's Louise with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and the Duisburg Philharmonic (October 2008),
He appeared as a guest conductor with the Orchestre de Paris, the Strasbourg Philharmonic, the Philharmonisches Orchester Freiburg, the Nürnberger Symphoniker, the Duisburg Philharmonic and the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra. As well as the Orchestra of the 18th Century.
In the near future, Jonathan Darlington will conduct Offenbach's Grande Duchesse Gerolstein at the Dresden Semperoper, Henze's Prinz von Homburg at the Frankfurt Oper and Die Fledermaus at the Staatsoper Hamburg.
Darlington was appointed a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres as well as Fellow (FRAM) of the Royal Academy of Music, London. [5]
With the Orchestre National de France:
With the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra:
With the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra:
 |
| General | |
|---|---|
| National libraries | |
| Other | |
Christian Thielemann is a German conductor. He is currently chief conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden and the director of the Salzburg Easter Festival.
Leopold Hager is an Austrian conductor known for his interpretations of works by the Viennese Classics.
Philippe Jordan is a Swiss conductor and pianist.
Johannes Fritzsch is a German conductor.
Ion Marin is a Romanian-Austrian conductor. He is internationally renowned both in operatic and symphonic domains.
Marc Albrecht is a German conductor who lives in The Netherlands. He was chief conductor of the Dutch National Opera, the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra from 2009 to 2020.
The Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra is a German orchestra based in Nuremberg. Its principal concert venue is the Meistersingerhalle. The orchestra's current Intendant is Lucius A. Hemmer, since September 2003.
Josep Caballé Domenech is a Spanish musician and conductor. Caballé Domenech has recently been appointed Principal Conductor of the Moritzburg Festival Germany) and he is also in his eighth season as Music Director of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic(USA). Besides, former General Music Director of the Staatskapelle Halle (Germany) from 2013 to 2018, Music Director of the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra (Colombia) during 2018 as well as principal guest conductor of the Norköping Symphony (Sweden) from 2005 to 2007. “Protégé” of Sir Colin Davis in the inaugural cycle of Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. Caballé Domenech enjoys combining his conducting career with a great symphonic and operatic repertoire.
Enrique Mazzola is a Spanish-born Italian conductor. He studied at the Giuseppe Verdi Milan Conservatory.
Mateusz Krzysztof Maksymilian Molęda is a German-Polish conductor.
Othmar Mága was a German conductor, who was chief conductor internationally, including the Odense Symphony Orchestra in Denmark and the KBS Symphony Orchestra in Korea. Among his many recordings are several rarely played concertos for instruments such as horn and double bass, including works of the 20th century.
Marc Soustrot is a French classical conductor. He was the music director of the Orchestre national des Pays de la Loire from 1976 to 1994, and from 1995 to 2003 GMD of the Beethoven Orchester Bonn which plays in both opera and concert. He has worked at major opera houses in Europe and made several recordings, such as Leonore, Beethoven's first version of Fidelio, the piano concertos and symphonies by Camille Saint-Saëns, Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher, and Penderecki's St Luke Passion.
Daniel Klajner is a Swiss conductor.
Eberhard Kloke is a German conductor and composer.
Marc Piollet is a French conductor. After positions at the Staatstheater Kassel and Volksoper in Vienna, he was Generalmusikdirektor (GMD) at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden from 2004 to 2012.
Walter Schartner was a German conductor, composer and Hochschullehrer. In 1946, he was appointed Generalmusikdirektor in Halle and as such he directed the Orchestra of the Halle Opera House. In 1949/50, he was chief conductor of the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Halle.
Michael Helmrath is a German oboist and conductor and since the 2016/2017 season, active as General Music Director of the Theater Nordhausen/Loh-Orchester Sondershausen.
Stefan Klingele is a German conductor. He has been music director and chief conductor of the Musikalische Komödie in Leipzig since 2015.
Thomas Rösner is an Austrian conductor.
