Kazushi Ono
Music
About me
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Kazushi Ono is the newly appointed Principal Conductor of Opera de Lyon, a position he will take up from the beginning of the 2008/09 season for an initial 5 year period. This position affords him the opportunity to build on his unqualified success at La Monnaie, Brussels, where he steps down as Music Director at the end of the 2007/08 season after 6 highly successful seasons. Ono has won t...
Kazushi Ono is the newly appointed Principal Conductor of Opera de Lyon, a position he will take up from the beginning of the 2008/09 season for an initial 5 year period. This position affords him the opportunity to build on his unqualified success at La Monnaie, Brussels, where he steps down as Music Director at the end of the 2007/08 season after 6 highly successful seasons. Ono has won t...
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Kazushi Ono is the newly appointed Principal Conductor of Opera de Lyon, a position he will take up from the beginning of the 2008/09 season for an initial 5 year period. This position affords him the opportunity to build on his unqualified success at La Monnaie, Brussels, where he steps down as Music Director at the end of the 2007/08 season after 6 highly successful seasons. Ono has won the affection of concert and opera goers across Belgium through his work at La Monnaie and he has made a considerable impact on the cultural life of Brussels.
Ono succeeded Antonio Pappano at the Royal Opera House of Belgium in 2002 and his debut production of Strauss's Electra was described by the Suddeutsche Zeitung as "the miracle of Brussels". Since then critically acclaimed productions have included Mussorgsky Boris Godunov, Mozart Don Giovanni, Britten Peter Grimes, Wagner Tannhauser and The Flying Dutchman, Verdi Aida and Falstaff, Stravinsky The Rake’s Progress, Prokofiev The Fiery Angel, Wagner Tristan und Isolde, and Strauss Die Frau ohne Schatten amongst others. He has also conducted several world premieres including Ballata by Luca Francesconi, Hanjo by Toshio Hosokawa (at the Aix-en-Provence Festival) and Julie by Philippe Boesmans and in autumn 2005 Ono and La Monnaie made their first Japanese tour with Don Giovanni and two symphonic programmes. This season he conducts new productions of Massenet Werther and Verdi Forza del Destino.
Kazushi Ono has conducted almost all Wagner's operas, notably the complete Ring cycle at the Badisches Staatstheater of Karlsruhe, where he was Music Director from 1996 - 2002. He recently conducted Tannhauser at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and he has also conducted Strauss Salome at the Berlin Staatsoper and Mozart Magic Flute at the Teatro Comunale Bologna. With the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, where his tenure as Music Director lasted from 1992 - 1996, he launched the award-winning Opera in Concert Form Series, giving the Japanese premieres of many 20th century operas. In 2005 he made his opera debut in Paris conducting The Bassarids by Henze at the Chatelet, a performance described by Le Monde de la Musique as "with a command and sense of theatre that recalled the great moments of Claudio Abbado".
Kazushi Ono also appears as guest conductor with leading international orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic, Boston Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic and Santa Cecilia Rome. His work with radio orchestras includes Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France both in Paris each season and on tour, Vienna Radio Symphony, BBC Symphony and BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Danish Radio, Finnish Radio, RAI Turin and numerous German radio orchestras including Hamburg, Freiburg, Stuttgart, Frankfurt and Cologne. In 2006 he made his debut at the BBC Proms in London with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. He made his operatic debut at La Scala Milan last season with a highly regarded Shostakovich Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, and this season enjoyed a very successful debut at The Metropolitan Opera with Aida.
Engagements this season include debuts with Opera de Paris with Hindemith Cardillac and Glyndebourne Festival Opera with Humperdink Hansel & Gretel and a return to La Scala Milan for Verdi Macbeth. He is also returning to The Metropolitan Opera in the 2009/10 season for The Flying Dutchman.
Kazushi Ono is the newly appointed Principal Conductor of Opera de Lyon, a position he will take up from the beginning of the 2008/09 season for an initial 5 year period. This position affords him the opportunity to build on his unqualified success at La Monnaie, Brussels, where he steps down as Music Director at the end of the 2007/08 season after 6 highly successful seasons. Ono has won the affection of concert and opera goers across Belgium through his work at La Monnaie and he has made a considerable impact on the cultural life of Brussels.
Ono succeeded Antonio Pappano at the Royal Opera House of Belgium in 2002 and his debut production of Strauss's Electra was described by the Suddeutsche Zeitung as "the miracle of Brussels". Since then critically acclaimed productions have included Mussorgsky Boris Godunov, Mozart Don Giovanni, Britten Peter Grimes, Wagner Tannhauser and The Flying Dutchman, Verdi Aida and Falstaff, Stravinsky The Rake’s Progress, Prokofiev The Fiery Angel, Wagner Tristan und Isolde, and Strauss Die Frau ohne Schatten amongst others. He has also conducted several world premieres including Ballata by Luca Francesconi, Hanjo by Toshio Hosokawa (at the Aix-en-Provence Festival) and Julie by Philippe Boesmans and in autumn 2005 Ono and La Monnaie made their first Japanese tour with Don Giovanni and two symphonic programmes. This season he conducts new productions of Massenet Werther and Verdi Forza del Destino.
Kazushi Ono has conducted almost all Wagner's operas, notably the complete Ring cycle at the Badisches Staatstheater of Karlsruhe, where he was Music Director from 1996 - 2002. He recently conducted Tannhauser at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and he has also conducted Strauss Salome at the Berlin Staatsoper and Mozart Magic Flute at the Teatro Comunale Bologna. With the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, where his tenure as Music Director lasted from 1992 - 1996, he launched the award-winning Opera in Concert Form Series, giving the Japanese premieres of many 20th century operas. In 2005 he made his opera debut in Paris conducting The Bassarids by Henze at the Chatelet, a performance described by Le Monde de la Musique as "with a command and sense of theatre that recalled the great moments of Claudio Abbado".
Kazushi Ono also appears as guest conductor with leading international orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic, Boston Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic and Santa Cecilia Rome. His work with radio orchestras includes Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France both in Paris each season and on tour, Vienna Radio Symphony, BBC Symphony and BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Danish Radio, Finnish Radio, RAI Turin and numerous German radio orchestras including Hamburg, Freiburg, Stuttgart, Frankfurt and Cologne. In 2006 he made his debut at the BBC Proms in London with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. He made his operatic debut at La Scala Milan last season with a highly regarded Shostakovich Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, and this season enjoyed a very successful debut at The Metropolitan Opera with Aida.
Engagements this season include debuts with Opera de Paris with Hindemith Cardillac and Glyndebourne Festival Opera with Humperdink Hansel & Gretel and a return to La Scala Milan for Verdi Macbeth. He is also returning to The Metropolitan Opera in the 2009/10 season for The Flying Dutchman.
