Hailing from a family of Swiss artists, Philippe Jordan is in demand at all the world's major opera houses, festivals and orchestras and is considered one of the most successful and important conductors of our time.

He is Conductor music of the Wiener Staatsoper from September 2020 and opened his first season with the premieres of Madama Butterfly, Parsifal and Macbeth alongside revivals of Der Rosenkavalier and Le Nozze di Figaro. More new productions of Don Giovanni, Wozzek, and Tristan und Isolde will follow in 2021/22. In the current season he is conducting the premieres of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Salome, and Le Nozze di Figaro as well as revivals of Don Giovanni, Der Rosenkavalier, Tristan und Isolde, Wozzek, and Parsifal. This season he will be a guest of the Orchestre National de France, the Munich Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the San Francisco Symphony. In spring 2023 he will be with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Konzerthaus Wien.

Jordan's career on the podium began as Kapellmeister at the Stadttheater Ulm in Germany and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin. From 2001 to 2004 he was Conductor principal at Graz Opera andFilarmonica orchestra in Graz, a period during which he also debuted at many of the world's most important opera houses and festivals, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Teatro alla Scala, the Bavarian State Opera, the Wiener Staatsoper, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, and the Aix-en-Provence, Glyndebourne and Salzburg festivals. From 2006 to 2010 he returned to the Berlin Opera as Conductor principal guest. In the summer of 2012 he made his Bayreuth Festival debut with Parsifal, returning in 2017 with the new Bayreuth production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, which he also directed in subsequent years.

Jordan was Conductor musical of the Opéra national de Paris between 2009 and 2021, where he directed numerous premieres and revivals, including Moses und Aron, La damnation de Faust, Der Rosenkavalier, Samson et Dalila, Lohengrin, Don Carlos (in the original French version), Les Troyens, Don Giovanni, a new production of Borodin's Prince Igor , and Wagner's Ring cycle in concert version. From 2014 to 2020 Philippe Jordan was Conductor principal of the Vienna Symphoniker. Highlights of his tenure with the orchestra include complete cycles of Schubert's and Beethoven's symphonies and concertos for piano, a cycle of J. S. Bach's major masses and oratorios, and a contrast-filled dialogue with Bruckner's last three symphonies and modern classics by Kurtág, Ligeti, and Scelsi.

Philippe Jordan has worked with the world's most famous orchestras, including Berliner and Wiener Philharmoniker, Münchner Philharmoniker, Wiener Symphoniker, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the symphony orchestras of Boston, Seattle, St Louis, Dallas, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Washington, Minnesota, Montreal, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco.

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