Daniele Gatti and the Orchestre National de France

DANIELE GATTI

Born in Milan in 1961, here he graduated in conservatory Giuseppe Verdi. Among the many positions held are those of Chief Conductor of the Zurich Opera ( 2009-12 ), musical director of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna (1997-2007 ), and Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Opera House in London ( 1994-97 ). It is among the few Italian directors invited to the Bayreuther Festspiele, where he inaugurated the 2008 edition with a new production of Parsifal. After Elektra in 2010, he returns to Salzburg Festival in 2012 to conduct La Bohème. In the same year, with the Wiener Philharmoniker, conducts the entire cycle of the Brahms symphonies in Vienna and in a European tour. He opened the season at the Teatro alla Scala in 2008 with Don Carlo and La Traviata in 2013 . Since 2008 he is Music Director of the Orchestre National de France and, since 2009 Conductor Laureate of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, after having been their Music Director since 1996.

ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE FRANCE

Created by Radio France, the Orchestre National de France is since 1934 the first permanent symphony orchestra in France. After his first conductor Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht follows after the war Manuel Rosenthal, André Cluytens, Roger Désormière, Charles Munch, Maurice Le Roux and Jean Martinon. After Sergiu Celibidache, First Guest Conductor from 1973 to 1975, Lorin Maazelwas appointed Music Director, followed by Charles Dutoit, Kurt Masur and since 2008 Daniele Gatti. Beyond its constant activity in the Théâtre des Champs Élysées of Paris, the orchestra has an intense concert activity in the major theaters and concert halls. Among the first performances that saw protagonist, the cantata Le Soleil des eaux by Pierre Boulez (1947), the Turangalîla-Symphonie by Olivier Messiaen (1950), the compositions of Henri DutilleuxPremière symphonie (1951), Timbres, Espace, Mouvement(1978), L’arbre des songes dedicated to the violinist Isaac Stern played by the same (1985), Le Temps l’horlogewith soprano Renée Fleming conducted by Seiji Ozawa (2008). Daniele Gatti performed with the orchestra the complete Čajkovskij symphonies (after the performing of the entire symphonies of Brahms, Mahler, Beethoven)and celebrates the eightieth anniversary of its founding in 1934.In occasion of the centenary of the creation of Le Sacre du printemps, orchestra recorded with Sony an album dedicated to Stravinsky which includes Petruška.