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Stuttgart State Opera appoints new Music Director
15 April 2010
Sylvain Cambreling(Photo: Marco Borggreve)
French-born conductor Sylvain Cambreling has been appointed as the new Music Director of Stuttgart State Opera by the company's artistic director designate, Jossi Wieler.
Wieler has invited Cambreling to conduct one production during the 2011/12 Season then take over as Music Director in 2012/13.
Wieler himself is due to join the company in 2011, succeeding Manfred Honeck.
Cambreling previously held the post of Music Director at La Monnaie in Brussels from 1981-1991 followed by four years at the helm of Frankfurt Opera in the 1990s. Although he has since conducted extensively at the Opéra National de Paris, this will be his first major appointment with an opera house since leaving Frankfurt.
Speaking to Opera Now, Cambreling explained that “After I left Frankfurt in 1997 I decided I would never take on an opera house again – it was too much work. But that was as general artistic director, and being a Music Director is very different. I love theatre music and even when I am busy conducting other repertoire I am first and foremost an opera conductor. So I am very excited to be trying again.”
Whilst it is too early to be talking about specific productions that he is planning with Wieler, Cambreling is candid about his desire “to work as a team” and develop close collaborative relationships with his new colleagues in Stuttgart.
Earlier this month, Cambreling was also appointed as the principal conductor of Tokyo’s Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra. He has been Chief Conductor of the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg since 1999.
