ALBUMGershwin & Ravel: Piano ConcertosPascal Rogé, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Bertrand De Billy
ALBUMSchulhoff: Flammen, WV 93 (Live)Raymond Very, Iris Vermillion, Stephanie Friede, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Bertrand De Billy
ALBUMI Am HeraHera Hyesang Park, Vienna Symphony & Bertrand De Billy
ALBUMPuccini: Il tabarro, SC 85Johan Botha, Wolfgang Koch, Elza van den Heever, Charles Reid, Janusz Monarcha, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Bertrand De Billy, Heidi Brunner & Elisabeta Marin
ALBUMGounod: Faust, CG 4Piotr Beczala, Soile Isokoski, Kwangchul Youn, Michaela Selinger, Adrian Eröd, Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera & Bertrand De Billy
ALBUMBeethoven: Symphony No. 2 - Brahms: RinaldoBertrand De Billy, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Johan Botha, Chor der Wiener Staatsoper & Chorus of the Vienna State Opera
ALBUMPoulenc: Dialogues des CarmélitesHeidi Brunner, Erik Arman, Magdalena Anna Hofmann, Deborah Polaski, Craig Smith, Christa Ratzenbock, Michelle Breedt, Yann Beuron, Matjaz Robavs, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Sally Matthews, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nenad Marinkovic, Bertrand De Billy, Jurgen Sacher, Dominik Koninger & Hendrickje van Kerckhove
ALBUMBeethoven: EgmontTobias Moretti, Bertrand De Billy, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Maria Bengtsson
ALBUMBeethoven: FidelioPeter Rose, Martin Schwab, Brigitte Geller, Bertrand De Billy, Kurt Streit, ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, Dietmar Kerschbaum, Gerd Grochowski, Thomas Ebenstein, Camilla Nylund, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Ralf Lukas & Markus Raab
ALBUMAranjuezXavier de Maistre, Bertrand De Billy & Radio Symphonie Orchester Wien
ALBUMBeethoven: Symphonies Nos. 7 and 8Bertrand De Billy & Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMDvorak, A.: Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" - Suk, J.: Pohadka (Fairy Tale)Maighread McCrann, Bertrand De Billy & Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMHommage à HaydnXavier de Maistre, Bertrand De Billy & Radio Symphonie Orchester Wien
ALBUMBeethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6Bertrand De Billy & Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMPuccini: La BohèmeAnna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Bertrand De Billy
ALBUMR. Strauss: Don Juan & Aus ItalienBertrand De Billy & Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMViolinkonzerteBertrand De Billy, Lidia Baich & ORF Radiosymphonieorchester
ALBUMGershwin: Rhapsody In Blue & An American In Paris - Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left HandBertrand De Billy, Pascal Rogé & Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMBeethoven: Symphony No. 3, Egmont & Overture to Collin's CoriolanBertrand De Billy & Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMDukas, P.: Ariane Et Barbe-Bleue (Complete)Ruxandra Donose, Deborah Polaski, Stella Grigorian, Nina Bernsteiner, Ante Jerkunica, Kwangchul Youn, Jane Henschel, Ileana Tonka, Bertrand De Billy, Vienna Philharmonic, Erik Arman, Markus Raab & Slovak Philharmonic Choir
ALBUMRoberto Alagna - Berlioz: AriasBertrand De Billy, Roberto Alagna, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
ALBUMRoberto Alagna - French Opera AriasBertrand De Billy, Roberto Alagna & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
ALBUMWagner: Tristan Und Isolde (excerpts)Deborah Polaski, Johan Botha, Bertrand De Billy, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Wiener Singverein
ALBUMBerlioz, H.: Grande Messe Des Morts - La Mort De Cleopatre - Le Carnaval RomainBertrand De Billy, Giuseppe Sabbatini, Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, Wiener Singakademie, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Violeta Urmana
ALBUMBizet: Carmen Suites - Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi D'un Faune - Roussel: Le Festin de l'araign - Fauré: Masques Et BergamasquesBertrand De Billy & Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMGershwin, G.: Piano Concerto in F Major - Ravel, M.: Piano Concerto in G MajorBertrand De Billy, Pascal Rogé & Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMWagner: Tristan Und Isolde (Highlights)Deborah Polaski, Bertrand De Billy, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Heidi Brunner
ALBUMJohannes Maria Staud: Berenice. Lied vom VerschwindenMarino Formenti, Petra Hoffmann, Ernesto Molinari, Klangforum Wien, Sylvain Cambreling, Emilio Pomarico, Thomas Larcher, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Bertrand De Billy
ALBUMAlbert, E.: Tiefland (Complete)Lisa Gasteen, Falk Struckmann, Béatrice Petitet-Kircher, Ulrike Pichler-Steffen, Kwangchul Youn, Bertrand De Billy, Johan Botha, Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Anna Maria Pammer, Wiener Singakademie, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Adriane Queiroz & Raymond Very
ALBUMSchubert: Symphony No. 9Bertrand De Billy & Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMRoberto Alagna - Airs de BerliozBertrand De Billy, Roberto Alagna & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
ALBUMMahler: Symphony No. 8Kwangchul Youn, Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Wiener Singakademie, Johan Botha, Ricarda Merbeth, Stella Grigorian, Elza van den Heever, Jane Henschel, Elisabeta Marin, Boaz Daniel, Wiener Sängerknaben, Bertrand De Billy & Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Bertrand De Billy's Popular Music Videos
Litaniae Lauretanae, K. 195: Agnus Dei (Live from Stephansdom, Vienna / 2006)
Sandrine Piau, Wiener Sängerknaben, Chorus Viennensis, Radio Symphonieorchester Wien & Bertrand De Billy
Mass in C Minor, K. 427 "Great Mass": Credo. Credo in unum Deum (Live from Stephansdom, Vienna / 2006)
Sandrine Piau, Wiener Sängerknaben, Chorus Viennensis, Radio Symphonieorchester Wien & Bertrand De Billy
Mass in C Major, K. 317 "Coronation Mass": II. Gloria (Live from Stephansdom, Vienna / 2006)
Dietmar Kerschbaum, Wolfgang Bankl, Wiener Sängerknaben, Chorus Viennensis, Radio Symphonieorchester Wien & Bertrand De Billy
End Credits (Live from Stephansdom, Vienna / 2006)
Radio Symphonieorchester Wien & Bertrand De Billy
Church Sonata in C Major, K. 329 (Live from Stephansdom, Vienna / 2006)
Radio Symphonieorchester Wien & Bertrand De Billy
Ave verum corpus, K. 618 (Live from Stephansdom, Vienna / 2006)
Wiener Sängerknaben, Chorus Viennensis, Radio Symphonieorchester Wien & Bertrand De Billy
Mass in C Major, K. 317 "Coronation Mass": VI. Agnus Dei (Live from Stephansdom, Vienna / 2006)
Dietmar Kerschbaum, Wolfgang Bankl, Wiener Sängerknaben, Chorus Viennensis, Radio Symphonieorchester Wien & Bertrand De Billy
Mass in C Major, K. 317 "Coronation Mass": V. Benedictus (Live from Stephansdom, Vienna / 2006)
Dietmar Kerschbaum, Wolfgang Bankl, Wiener Sängerknaben, Chorus Viennensis, Radio Symphonieorchester Wien & Bertrand De Billy
Mass in C Major, K. 317 "Coronation Mass": IV. Sanctus (Live from Stephansdom, Vienna / 2006)
Dietmar Kerschbaum, Wolfgang Bankl, Wiener Sängerknaben, Chorus Viennensis, Radio Symphonieorchester Wien & Bertrand De Billy
Mass in C Major, K. 317 "Coronation Mass": III. Credo (Live from Stephansdom, Vienna / 2006)
Dietmar Kerschbaum, Wolfgang Bankl, Wiener Sängerknaben, Chorus Viennensis, Radio Symphonieorchester Wien & Bertrand De Billy
About Bertrand De Billy
Artist Biography
Bertrand de Billy, while conducting and recording a sizable amount of instrumental music over the years, is generally associated with opera. In the new millennium he has devoted much time to the works of Wagner, appearing on a half-dozen or so DVDs of Wagner's operas, including a complete Ring. Massenet, Gounod, and other French composers have figured significantly in his operatic repertory, as well. In the instrumental realm, his tastes are varied and take in Mozart sacred works, Beethoven and Mahler symphonies, Debussy, Ravel, and Gershwin, and contemporary composers such as Rihm, Berio, Gruber, and Henze. He has led performances at many of the leading opera houses in Europe and the U.S., and has also conducted an array of orchestras in France, Germany, and Austria. De Billy has made numerous recordings, most for major labels like EuroArts, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, Teldec, and Orfeo.
De Billy was born in Paris in 1965. As a child he studied violin and viola and also regularly sang in a boys choir. He received his musical education in Paris, played in orchestras there, and then eventually conducted several Paris-based ensembles.
In 1986 he was appointed conductor of the Orchestre Symphonique des Jeunesse en Ile de France. He served four seasons in this post, during the last of which he worked with conductor/pianist Philippe Entremont. He served for a short time thereafter as an assistant to Pierre Dervaux at the Orchestre Colonne in Paris.
De Billy's debut in the operatic realm came at the 1991 Orviedo Festival in Spain, where he led an acclaimed performance of La Traviata. He returned to Spain the following year to enthusiastic response when he conducted Bizet's The Pearl Fishers at the Barcelona Festival.
De Billy's watershed breakthrough in opera came in 1993: that year he was appointed principal conductor and general music director at the Anhaltisches Theater in Dessau, a post he held until 1995. At the Vienna Volksoper, de Billy led a highly acclaimed Carmen in 1994 and went on to serve as music director there from 1996-1998.
From 1999-2004 de Billy was chief conductor at the Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona, where he led a celebrated Ring cycle. From 2002 until 2009 he served as principal conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. De Billy's 2007 performance of Massenet's Manon at the Teatro del Liceu with Anna Netrebko was a great success. His extensive discography includes recordings of Mozart's Da Ponte operas, Fidelio, Faust, Don Carlos, La bohème, Dialogues des Carmélites, and Ariane et Barbe-Bleue, as well as orchestral works by Schubert, Dvorák, Mahler, Gershwin, and Berio.
Hometown
Paris, France
Genre
Classical
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