Alan Woodbridge

Alan Woodbridge is one of Europe’s leading choral conductors in the field of opera. He currently works for the Opéra Grand Avignon and at the Chorégies d’Orange. During his many years working at the Opéra de Lyon he established the exceptional reputation of the company’s chorus, and participated in numerous recordings under the baton of Kent Nagano, including Les Contes d’Hoffmann, The Rake’s Progress, La Damnation de Faust, Lohengrin, Doktor Faust (awarded a Grammy Award), Ariadne auf Naxos and Werther. During his time in Lyon he also realized a Pushkin-Tchaikovsky trilogy with Kirill Petrenko and Peter Stein, and toured with the chorus to Tokyo, San Francisco, Vienna, Athens, Edinburgh, Ravenna, Amsterdam, Paris and Aix-en-Provence. For ten years he was chorus director at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, where he worked with Marc Minkowski on Les Huguenots, La Juive and Don Carlos, and with Mariame Clément on Anna Bolena and Maria Stuarda. Works which he has conducted include La bohème, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Curlew River, La Fille du régiment and La Belle Hélène. Alan Woodbridge is also active as a pianist and organist, and has worked with the English National Opera, Opera North, the Dutch National Opera, the Chorus of Radio France and the Semperoper Dresden. He has been awarded the title of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.