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Bertrand De Billy
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Bertrand de Billy (born 1965 in Paris) is a French conductor. After his career as an instrumental musician, de Billy began his conducting career in Paris. He later moved to Germany and built up his career as an opera conductor. He was the general music director at the Anhaltisches Theater in Dessau from 1993 to 1995. At the Vienna Volksoper he held the post of first conductor from 1996 to 1998. From 1999 to 2004, de Billy was Chief Conductor of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, after the reopening of the theatre. Since 2002, de Billy has served as chief conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSO Wien). His products with the orchestra have included opera productions at the Festival OsterKlang and at the Sommerfestival Klangbogen. His recordings with the RSO Wien have included Eugen d'Albert's Tiefland. de Billy has had disputes with management over funding and the continuing status of the orchestra. He is scheduled to step down from this post in 2010. In January 2009, the RSO Wien announced the appointment of Cornelius Meister as its seventh chief conductor, effective with the 2010-2011 season and with an initial contract through August 2014. Bertrand de Billy is Member of the Board of the Vienna based European Academy of Music Theatre. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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Gloria in excelsis Deo
1252Dialogues des Carmelites, FP 159: Act I Scene 1: Ou est Blanche? (Le Chevalier, Le Marquis)
633Te Deum für Kaiserin Maria Theresia
524Dialogues des Carmelites, FP 159: Act I Scene 1: Les soldats surviennent a temps (Le Chevalier, Le Marquis)
455Puccini: La Bohème / Act 1 - "Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì"
426Dialogues des Carmelites, FP 159: Act I Scene 1: Blanche, votre frere aviat grand'hate de vous revoir (Le Marquis, Blanche, Le Chevalier)
397Cum Sancto Spiritu (from Petite Messe solennelle)
378Dialogues des Carmelites, FP 159: Act I Scene 1: Son imagination va toujours d'un extreme a l'autre (Le Marquis, Le Chevalier, Blanche, Thierry)
379Dialogues des Carmelites, FP 159: Act I Scene 1: Je vois qu'il n'y a heuresement rien de grave (Le Marquis, Blanche)
3610Dialogues des Carmelites, FP 159: Act I Scene 1: Mon enfant cherie (Le Marquis, Blanche)
34albums
Puccini: La Bohème
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Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites
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Festliches Adventskonzert aus der Dresdner Frauenkirche
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 - Brahms: Rinaldo
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Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492 - Opera buffa in four Acts
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Klassik zu Weihnachten
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Così fan tutte Act I
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Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492 - Opera buffa in four Acts,Act II-III
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Mozart/Don Giovanni
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French Opera Arias
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Desert Island Discs
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Les 100 Plus Beaux Airs de Roberto Alagna