Yves Abel
Yves Abel
chef d’orchestre
Après des études à l'Université de Toronto, Yves Abel se rend à Tanglewood, où il suit l'enseignement de Léonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Gûnther Herbig et Roger Norrington. Il dirige à plusieurs reprises au Festival Rossini de Pesaro (Mathilde de Shabran et le Barbier de Séville), à l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo (le Turc en Italie) et se fait l'ambassadeur de la musique française à New York. Il fonde l'Opéra français, avec lequel il programme et dirige des raretés comme Zampa d'Hérold, les Mamelles de Tirésias de Poulenc, l'Etoile de Chabrier, tes Deux Journées de Chérubini ou encore le Pauvre Matelot de Darius Milhaud. Parmi ses engagements récents, signalons Hamlet d'Ambroise Thomas à l'Opéra de San Francisco avec Thomas Hampson dans le rôle titre, Thaïs de Massenet à l'Opéra de Nice (oeuvre qu'il a enregistrée chez Decca avec Renée Flemming, Thomas Hampson et Giuseppe Sabbatini), Faust de Gounod à l'Opéra-Bastille,... Yves Abel collabore également avec les plus grands orchestre symphoniques, comme celui du Concertgebouw d'Amsterdam, les orchestres symphoniques de San Fransisco, Toronto et Saint Luke.
Yves ABEL is considered one of the most exciting conductors of his generation.
He has been Principal Guest Conductor of the Deutsche Oper Berlin since 2005, and has conducted in major international opera houses around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera at Covent Garden where he recently made a successful debut, Opéra National de Paris Bastille, La Scala, Vienna Staatsoper, El Gran Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona, New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Seattle Opera, Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, as well as opera companies in Cagliari, Palermo, Cardiff, Leeds, Lisbon, Dallas, Oviedo, Nice, amongmany others.
In addition, he has conducted in many of the world's great opera festivals, including the Glyndebourne Festival, the Santa Fe Opera, the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro.
Equally comfortable in symphonic music, Yves Abel conducted in concerts all over the world, notably with the orchestras of the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse and Orchestre National de Lyon in France; the Toronto, Edmonton and Montreal Symphony Orchestras and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Canada; the San Francisco Symphony and the Orchestra of St.
Luke’s in the United States, Genova, Bologna, Palermo, Naples, Bolzano, Granada, Berlin, Bochum, among many others.
Futureorchestral concerts include the orchestras of Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Deutsche Oper Orchestra Berlin, RTE Dublin, Orquesta Nacional do Porto, NWD in Herford, Bochum, Bolzano Haydn Orchestra, OSPA in Oviedo Spain, among others.
In New York, he is best known for his enterprising Opéra Français de New York, which rediscovered many excellent forgotten works of the French repertoire, such as Les Deux Journeés and Médée of Cherubini, La Jolie Fille de Perth and Le Docteur Miracle of Bizet, Berlioz's Béatrice et Bénédict, Gluck's Orphée et Eurydice and Iphigénie en Aulide, Donizetti's La Favorite, many Offenbach operettas, as well as modern works by Milhaud (for which Madeleine Milhaud, the composer's wife came to assist in the premieres) and Poulenc.
He also brought Pascal Dusapin's To Be Sung to New York, and Kurt Weill's Marie Galante, both as American premieres.
For his services to French music, he is honored with one of the country’s highest cultural honors, the prestigious Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2009.
Yves Abel's future engagements include his returns to London's Royal Opera Covent Garden with La Traviata and La Fille du Régiment; to Vienna Staatsoper for Carmen, Elisir d'Amore, Madama Butterfly and Il Barbiere di Siviglia; Operade Oviedo with Werther, and Seattle with Les Contes d'Hoffman ; debuts and new productions of I Capuletti ed i Montecchi for the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and Les Vêpres Siciliennes for the Grand Théâtre de Genève; La Fille du Régiment for San Diego Opera, Giovanna d'Arco in Bilbao; Madama Butterfly in his debut at the New National Theatre of Tokyo.
He returns to the Rossini Opera Festival this summer for La Cenerentola and to the Metropolitan Opera twice in the near future.