Philippe Forget

Conductor
Philippe Forget is orchestral conductor and composer. He is invited by the Opera de Lyon where he has conducted Les Contes d’Hoffmann, La Damnation de Faust, L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, operas from Copland, Respighi, Blacher, Glass. He is regularly guest conductor of the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, the Orquestra Sinfonica Campinas in San Paolo, the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, the Orchestre National de Lorraine, the Orchestre National de Bretagne, the Opera National de Bordeaux and the Orchestre Lamoureux in Paris. He is Associate Artist with the Limoges Opera and he was Associate Conductor of the Camerata de Bourgogne having been nominated Chief Conductor in Residence from 2008-2013 of the Orchestre Regional Bayonne-Cote Basque. In 2009 he was invited by the International Festival in Verbier to conduct Don Giovanni. Since 2014 he has been a guest at the Festival Opera des Landes where he has conducted Carmen, La Boheme, Rigoletto, Werther, Faust and La Traviata, Belle Hélène.
He is present as composer or conductor at French May Festival in Hong Kong, Firenze Gamo Festival, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Ramsgate Festivals, Théâtre du Châtelet, Radio-France and Studio-Opéra-Bastille in Paris, Beacon Theater Broadway, Brandeis University NYC.
Philippe Forget is Artistic Director of the French Festival Labeaume en Musique. His projects include collaboration with Rap singer Oxmo Puccino, the artists Jane Birkin, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Iggy Pop, the actress Monica Bellucci.
He is Knight of Order of Arts and Letter by the French Republic.

Participations - Performances - Collaborations

59th DIMITRIA: G. VERDI - LA TRAVIATA - Sunday, 27 October 2024  
GASPARE SPONTINI: LA VESTALE - Friday, 08 December 2023  
WORKS OF RAVEL, BACH & MENDELSSOHN - Saturday, 18 March 2023  
CHAMBER MUSIC WORKS BY FRENCH COMPOSERS - Wednesday, 06 October 2021  
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