Jordan appointed to the Vienna State Opera
The Swiss Philippe Jordan will take up his post as Music Director of the Vienna State Opera in 2020. As a member of the directorate, he will lead and structurally shape the entire musical area of the opera house.
Philippe Jordan, born in Zurich in 1974, is music director at the Opéra national de Paris and chief conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, according to a statement from the Vienna State Opera. He began his career at the age of 20 as Kapellmeister at the Stadttheater Ulm. In 1998, he moved to the Berlin Lindenoper as assistant to Daniel Barenboim and Kapellmeister, and from 2001 to 2004 he was chief conductor of the Graz Opera.
From 2006 to 2010, Philippe Jordan returned to Berlin as Principal Guest Conductor at the Staatsoper unter den Linden. From 2009, he took over the musical direction of the Paris Opera and in 2014, he became Principal Conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.
In the planning for the first two seasons 2020/21 and 2021/22, the new State Opera Director Bogdan Roščić and Philippe Jordan have already determined the Music Director's premiere conductorships. However, together with the orchestra, the chorus, the ensemble and the other musical and artistic groups of the house, the focus will be just as strongly on the repertoire operations that determine the daily life of the Vienna State Opera.
