Philippe Jordan
Biography: Philippe Jordan (born 18 October 1974) is a Swiss conductor and pianist. Born in Zürich, the son of conductor Armin Jordan, he began to study piano at the age of six. At age eight, he joined the Zürcher Sängerknaben. He has acknowledged that he wished to become a conductor, like his father, at age 9. His violin studies began at age 11. At 16, he entered the Zürich Conservatory where he obtained his diploma in piano instruction, with honors. He studied theory and composition with the Swiss composer Hans Ulrich Lehmann and continued his piano studies with Karl Engel. At the same time, he worked as an assistant to Jeffrey Tate on Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Châtelet in Paris. In the 1994/1995 season, Jordan was appointed first Kapellmeister and assistant to James Allen Gähres at the Theater Ulm. The following year, he made his debut at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. He has since conducted at the Grand Théâtre in Geneva, the Vienna Staatsoper, the Châtelet in Paris, the Semperoper in Dresden and the Aix-en-Provence International Festival. From September 1998 to June 2001, Jordan was Kapellmeister and assistant to Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin State Opera (Staatsoper Unter den Linden). He now holds the title of principal guest conductor at the Staatsoper unter den Linden. Jordan was chief conductor of the Graz Opera and of the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra from September 2001 to June 2004. In the 2001–2002 season, Jordan made his US operatic debut conducting Samson et Dalila at the Houston Grand Opera, and his UK operatic debut conducting Carmen at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera. In the 2002–2003 season, he made his debuts at the Metropolitan Opera and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He made his first conducting appearance at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich in April 2004, and at the Bastille Opera in Paris in October 2004. His first appearances at the Salzburg Festival took place in the summer of 2004. In October 2007, Jordan was named the music director of the Opéra National de Paris, starting with the 2009–2010 season. In October 2011, Jordan's contract with the Opéra National de Paris was extended through July 2018. In April 2015, the Opéra National de Paris further extended Jordan's contract through 2021. Jordan is scheduled to conclude his tenure at the Opéra National de Paris at the end of the 2020–2021 season. In October 2011, Jordan was named chief conductor of the Wiener Symphoniker (Vienna Symphony Orchestra), effective with the 2014–2015 season, with an initial contract of five years. In December 2016, the orchestra announced the extension of Jordan's contract as chief conductor through the 2020–2021 season. He concluded his Vienna Symphony tenure at the close of the 2020–2021 season. In July 2017, the Vienna State Opera announced the appointment of Jordan as its next music director, effective with the 2020–2021 season. In October 2022, Jordan announced his intention to conclude his tenure with the Vienna State Opera at the close of the 2024–2025 season. ... Source: Article "Philippe Jordan" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Mozart: Le Nozze Di Figaro (Wiener Staatsoper Live)
2021-02-04
Mozart: Le Nozze Di Figaro (Wiener Staatsoper Live)
Overview: Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro performed live (and streamed) on the February 4, 2021.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-02-04
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Ludwig van Beethoven - Complete Symphonies
2015-04-06
Ludwig van Beethoven - Complete Symphonies
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2015-04-06
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Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth - Salzburger Festspiele 2023
2023-07-29
Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth - Salzburger Festspiele 2023
Overview: After a victorious battle, three witches predict that Macbeth, who commands King Duncan's army, will ascend the throne of Scotland. Urged on by his wife to force fate, he takes advantage of the monarch's stay in their castle to murder him... The daring Krzysztof Warlikowski revisits Verdi's most powerful Shakespearean opera, with baritone Vladislav Sulimsky and soprano Asmik Grigorian in the roles of the murderous spouses.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-07-29
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Tannhäuser
2009-10-19
Tannhäuser
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-10-19
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Wagnerwahn
2013-01-01
Wagnerwahn
Overview: Wagnerwahn is a documentary in a style of a thriller.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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Georges Bizet: Carmen
2004-03-01
Georges Bizet: Carmen
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-03-01
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Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Bayreuther Festspiele
2018-07-20
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Bayreuther Festspiele
Overview: The high-point of the 2017 Bayreuth Festival, Barrie Kosky’s astonishingly entertaining and convincing new Meistersinger is a triumph: a production of enormous insight and great quality... that plumbs the depths of both the opera and its composer.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-20
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Benvenuto Cellini
2018-04-12
Benvenuto Cellini
Overview: The Florentine sculptor and silversmith Benvenuto Cellini rapidly attained a degree of renown that went beyond the confines of Italy. Invariably embroiled in conspiracies, intrigues and quarrels, Cellini is commissioned by the Pope to cast a large sculpture of Perseus. He is loved by Teresa, but she is promised to Fieramosca, an academic artist who has not been favoured with a papal commission. Terry Gilliam’s exuberant production draws the protagonists into a delirious and joyful yet claustrophobic and megalomaniac world: a flaring up of contagious madness.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-12
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Opéra National de Paris: Verdi's Don Carlos
2017-10-19
Opéra National de Paris: Verdi's Don Carlos
Overview: Set in 16th-century France and Spain, Don Carlos tells of the political and amorous rivalry between King Philip II and his son, Don Carlos, over Elisabeth de Valois. Krzysztof Warlikowski strips down a tragedy haunted by ghosts, and places the intimate at the heart of an imaginary fresco truer than history itself. Along with Philippe Jordan, he reveals to the public the very first version of this great five-act opera: the version modified by Verdi himself for the work’s first performance in 1867.
Genres: Drama History Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-10-19
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
2018-09-11
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Overview: Motivated by the love that bound him to Mathilda Wesendonck, Richard Wagner’s composition of Tristan und Isolde goes far beyond any simple operatic gesture. Peter Sellars’ production pours oil onto this troubled sea of emotions in an almost dematerialised setting bared of all earthly contingencies whilst Bill Viola presents the lovers’ initiatory quest for nirvana in videos detached from the stage, suspended like altarpieces.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-09-11
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Jarrell: Bérénice
2018-09-26
Jarrell: Bérénice
Overview: Titus and Berenice love each other; under the watchful eye of Antiochus, the hopeless lover, they try yet refuse to understand each other. Taking up the “majestic sadness” of these alexandrines, among the greatest verses in the French language, Michael Jarrell amplifies the power of words, making them a vehicle for spaces and identities that, from Rome to Jerusalem, are unceasingly questioned.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-09-26
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Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila
2016-10-13
Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila
Overview: Lightning streaks through the skies as Dalila declares her love to Samson in one of the finest arias of romantic opera. “My heart awakens to your voice like a flower to the kiss of dawn.” An enchanting yet treacherous beauty… When the thunder at last rumbles, Dalila betrays Samson and offers him up to his enemies: “Come up, for this time he has shown me all his heart”, she whispers to them in the night (The Old Testament, Book of Judges). Based on a violent and erotic biblical story, Saint-Saëns’s opera – composed in 1877, much to Liszt’s insistence – would not be performed at the Palais Garnier until fifteen years later. This first Parisian performance in 1892 included the hitherto unperformed “Dance Of The Priestesses”. Nevertheless, it became one of the most performed French operas in the world, together with Faust and Carmen. Conducted by Philippe Jordan, this new production brings back a repertoire masterpiece that has not been performed at the Paris Opera for twenty-five years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-10-13
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Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann
2016-11-15
Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann
Overview: This adaptation of three tales by E.T.A. Hoffmann, with a sprinkling of Goethe’s Faust, portrays the German poet as both narrator and hero recounting his love affairs with Olympia, Antonia and Giuletta. Robert Carsen’s spectacular production highlights the melancholy genius of a man marked by life, with a coherence and dramatic sense remarkable for a work that leaves numerous questions unanswered. Under the baton of Philippe Jordan, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Ermonela Jaho, Kate Aldrich, Yann Beuron and Ramón Vargas and Stefano Secco in the main role, interpret the legendary airs of this work whose brilliant mystery will continue to dazzle opera houses for countless years to come.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-11-15
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Mozart: Così Fan Tutte
2017-02-16
Mozart: Così Fan Tutte
Overview: Prompted by Don Alfonso, a cynical old philosopher, two young idealists decide to put their lovers’ fidelity to the test. But love will teach them a bitter lesson: those who believe themselves phoenixes and goddesses will discover the desires of the flesh… In 1790, one year after the French Revolution, in what would be their final collaboration, Mozart and Da Ponte conduct a scientific investigation of love. With six singers doubled by six dancers, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker depicts the desire which unites and separates human beings, like the interactions between atoms that, once broken, make new bonds possible
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-02-16
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Carmen
2002-07-25
Carmen
Overview: David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores the Opera Comique to Bizet's masterpiece. Philippe Jordan, in his Glyndebourne debut, conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Glyndebourne Chorus, and a cast which includes Marcus Haddock, Laurent Naouri, and Lisa Milne.
Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-07-25
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Werther
2005-11-05
Werther
Overview: Filmed at the Vienna State Opera in 2005, Andrei Serban's production of Massenet's opera with a late 18th century setting pushes the action forwards to the 1950's,with the visuals exemplifying that decade with precision.With as much delicacy on display as naked passion,his(Alverez)morbid poet is outstandingly realised both vocally and dramatically. Together with Erod's dour Albert and Ileana Tonca's Sophie-clearly in love with Werther herself-the drama is set out with unusual clarity and realism.Philippe Jordan ensures that Massenet's pent-up emotion explodes exactly on cue,its expressive power providing impossible to resist.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-05
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Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
2012-03-01
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Overview: Debussy's masterpiece, for the first time conducted by the Paris Opera's music director Philippe Jordan, in the fairy staging by Robert Wilson. When Prince Golaud, grandson of King of Allemonde, meets the beautiful Mélisande, he knows nothing about her. Though, he marries her. A few months later, Golaud announces his wedding to his brother Pelléas, who seems to be falling in love with the woman.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-01
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Beethoven - Complete symphonies
2016-09-30
Beethoven - Complete symphonies
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-09-30
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Don Carlo
2024-10-09
Don Carlo
Overview: Production of the Vienna State Opera, October 2024. Inspired by a visit to the Kyoto Costume Institute in Japan, director Kirill Serebrennikov brings the plot of Don Carlo into a contemporary context. He was also inspired by this institute for his stage design - after all, original objects from all eras and cultures are kept there and prepared and stored accordingly to protect them from decay.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-09
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The Blu-ray Experience II: Opera, Ballet & theatre
2010-10-26
The Blu-ray Experience II: Opera, Ballet & theatre
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-10-26
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Arnold Schönberg: Moses und Aron
2015-10-20
Arnold Schönberg: Moses und Aron
Overview: Moses und Aron is a three-act opera by Arnold Schoenberg with the third act unfinished. The 2015 Production was led by Romeo Castellucci in Paris. Moses und Aron was filmed for television by film director François-René Martin, in co-production with the Paris Opera, Bel air Media and Arte, with support from the CNC.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-10-20
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Le Nozze di Figaro
2010-10-10
Le Nozze di Figaro
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Genres: Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2010-10-10
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Doktor Faust
2006-01-01
Doktor Faust
Overview: Faust - a lonely scholar, despairing of life, who has so far failed to discover its highest meaning - is given a book on black magic from three mysterious students from Cracow. When Mephistopheles appears and proposes a pact with Faust, the two of them set off together on a (dream) journey. Doktor Faust remained a fragment at the time of the composer's death. Busoni died in 1924, unable to complete what he himself described as his "state masterpiece" - an opera to which he had a deep personal attachment. The missing scenes from the score were completed by his pupil, Philipp Jarnach, whom Busoni had become acquainted with during his period in exile in Zurich. In this form the opera was given its first performance in Dresden in 1925. Then in the 1980s the conductor Anthony Beaumont came across previously undiscovered sketches by Busoni and produced a new version of Doktor Faust. The current recording uses the Jarnach score.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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