Philippe Jordan

Philippe Jordan comes from an artistic Swiss family and is one of the most important conductors of his generation. From 2027/28 he will be music director of the Orchestre National de France.

From 2020 to 2025 Philippe Jordan was general music director of the Vienna State Opera, where he conducted numerous new productions, including Madama Butterfly, Parsifal, Macbeth, Le nozze di Figaro, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Tristan und Isolde, Salome, Il trittico and Mozart’s Da Ponte operas. In his final season he conducted new productions of Don Carlos and Tannhäuser and revivals of the Da Ponte operas and of Wagner’s Ring. In autumn 2025 he and the Vienna State Opera will tour to Japan with Der Rosenkavalier.

Other future engagements will include projects at La Scala, Milan, and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and with the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Bamberg Symphony, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, the symphony orchestras of Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta, Seoul and Hong Kong and the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo.

Philippe Jordan began his career as Kapellmeister at Theater Ulm and at the Berlin State Opera. From 2001 to 2004 he was principal conductor of the Graz Opera. During this period, he made his debuts at numerous leading opera houses and at renowned festivals, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, La Scala, the Bavarian and Vienna State Operas, the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus and the Aix-en-Provence, Glyndebourne and Salzburg Festivals. Between 2006 and 2010 he was principal guest conductor of the Berlin State Opera. In 2012 he made his debut at the Bayreuth Festival with Parsifal, returning in 2017 for a new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.

From 2009 to 2021 he was music director of the Paris Opéra, where he conducted operas including Moses und Aron, La Damnation de Faust, Der Rosenkavalier, Samson et Dalila, Lohengrin, Don Carlos, Les Troyens, Don Giovanni and Borodin’s Prince Igor, and a concert version of Wagner’s Ring.

From 2014 to 2020 he was principal conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, where his performances included a cycle of Schubert symphonies, Beethoven’s symphonies and piano concertos, the great masses and oratorios by Bach, and Bruckner’s last three symphonies paired with works by Kurtág, Ligeti and Scelsi at the Vienna Musikverein.

On the concert platform Philippe Jordan has conducted the world’s most prestigious orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Gustav Mahler Jugendochester, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the symphony orchestras of Boston, Seattle, St Louis, Dallas, Detroit, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Washington, Minnesota, Montreal, Los Angeles and New York.