CHRISTIAN BADEA
Background: Studied in Brussels, Salzburg (with Herbert von Karajan) and with Leonard Bernstein. Graduated from Juilliard School
OA repertoire: La bohème
Other Companies: Conducted at the Metropolitan Opera, New York (over 160 performances), Vienna State Opera, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Bavarian State Opera in Munchen, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Lyon, Torino, Bologna, Amsterdam, La Monnaie in Brussels, Houston, Dallas, Toronto, Montreal in a repertoire of over 100 operas with emphasis on Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Tchaikowsky, Strauss, Wagner, French repertoire and also Berg, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Barber among many others. Collaborated with most of the top singers of the last two decades such as Domingo, Fleming, Hampson, Terfel and Dessay, and stage directors such as Herheim, Warner, Cox, Beresford, Herzog. Conducted Santa Cecilia Orchestra in Rome, the Czech Philharmonic, the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique in Paris, Royal Philharmonic in London
Recordings: Samuel Barber - Antony and Cleopatra (won a Grammy); Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 with the Royal Philharmonic (Telarc); symphonies by American composers Roger Sessions and Peter Mennin (New World)
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