Director of the Théâtre national de l’Opéra-Comique since 2021, French conductor Louis Langrée has recently been renewed until 2029 by the President of France, Emmanuel Macron. Following a successful eleven years as Music Director at Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Louis has been appointed Music Director Laureate.
In the 2025-26 season, Louis conducts the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall, the New York Philharmonic at Geffen Hall, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia Festival, the National Symphony at Kennedy Center, as well as the Kansas City Symphony and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. He will also conduct Così fan tutte at the Vienna Staatsoper, as well as Iphigénie en Tauride and Brundibár at the Opéra-Comique. Recent highlights include acclaimed performances of the original version of Faust (with spoken dialogues) presented for the first time on stage in Paris since 1862
A regular presence in New York since his 1998 debut, Langrée has conducted around 250 performances and concerts at Lincoln Center, Mostly Mozart Festival (where he served as Music Director for 21 years), Metropolitan Opera, and New York Philharmonic. Guest conductor appearances include the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de Paris, and Leipzig Gewandhaus, as well as Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Freiburg Baroque and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. In addition to the Met, he frequently conducts at the leading opera houses including Vienna Staatsoper, Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Opéra national de Paris and Dresden Semperoper, and at festivals including Glyndebourne, Aix-en-Provence, BBC Proms, Edinburgh International Festival, the Hong Kong Arts Festival, Wiener Festwochen, Salzburg Mozartwoche and Whitsun.
A strong advocate for the music of our time, Langrée has commissioned and conducted numerous world premieres including by Daníel Bjarnason, Julia Adolphe, Guillaume Connesson, Anna Clyne, Thierry Escaich, Jonathan Bailey Holland, David Lang, Julia Wolfe, Nico Muhly, André Previn, Caroline Shaw, Christopher Rouse, and Anthony Davis
