Werther - Alain Guingal

Ópera "Werther" de Massenet: São Carlos Fevereiro/Março de 2004.

Alain Guingal, Direcção musical

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Alain Guingal
Conductor

General Director from 1975 to 1981of the Avignon Opera, where he conducted, among others, Der Fliegende Holländer, Thaïs, Simone Boccanegra and La traviata, Alain Guingal has worked regularly with the major Opera Houses in France. In the same time, his international career brought him to the most prestigious theatres within Europe: Bologna, Florence, Turin, Barcelona, Madrid, Vienna and Munich.

In 1988 he made his debut at the Opéra de Paris opening the operatic season with Rigoletto.

His repertoire includes Manon (Orchestre Philarmonique de Radio-France, 1992), Otello (Corégie d’Orange, 1993), Wether (Wiener Staatsoper, 1991; Théâtre Royal de Wallonie, 1993), Iphigénie en Aulide (Wiener Staatsoper, 1991), L’italiana in Algeri (at the Spring Festival in Bayreuth with Bayerische Staatsoper), La traviata (Welsh National Opera in Cardiff).

Since his first invitation in Spain in 1982, Alain Guingal is a regular guest at Madrid Opera, Teatro de Liceu in Barcelona, Bilbao and Santa Cruz.

In Italy he was invited to conduct at the Teatro Regio di Torino (Esclarmonde, 1992; La forza del destino, 1994; Samson et Dalila, 1997), at Teatro Comunale di Firenze (Don Quichotte, 1993; La Voix Humaine with Renata Scotto), at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma (Don Quichotte, 1997), at the Teatro Verdi di Trieste (Manon, 1998), at the Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli (Roberto Devereux, 1998), at the Teatro Sociale di Como (La colombe, 1998), at the Macerata Opera Festival (Carmen, 1994 and 1998) and in Bologna, Genoa, Parma, Cagliari and Sassari.

In 1998/9 season he returned to the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma for Roméo et Juliette, to the Teatro Verdi di Trieste for Les dialogues des Carmélites and Barbe-Bleu, to the Opéra d’Avignon for I puritani, to the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples for a new production of La traviata.

1999/2000 season brought him on the podium of the Teatro Massimo di Palermo for Faust, of the Japan Opera Foundation for La traviata, to Parma for Roméo et Juliette. More recently, Alain Guingal appeared at the New National Theatre in Tokyo in Don Quichotte and Werther, at the Teatro Verdi di Trieste for La belle Hélène and I Puritani, and at the Teatro Real in Madrid as the conductor of a new production of Faust. He made his prestigious debuts at the Washington Opera with Don Quichotte, a work he also conducted in Nice, at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie de Liège in Ernani, Il trovatore and Don Quichotte, and at the Opéra de Toulon in Werther. Alain Guingal has just led his first La straniera at the Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania and has returned to Parma for a new successful production of L’elisir d’amore, and to Macerata for Lucia di Lammermoor. In Bilbao, he just led a new production of Carmen.

Highlights of Alain Guingal’s future engagements include Turandot and Un ballo in maschera in Avignon, Simon Boccanegra and La forza del destino at the Théâtre Royal de Wallonie in Liège, Massenet’s Manon at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Werther in Lisbon, Turin and Las Palmas.