French conductor Louis Langrée became Director of the Théâtre national de l’Opéra Comique in November 2021, named by the President of France, Emmanuel Macron. Following a successful ten years as Music Director at Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Louis has been appointed Music Director Laureate, with his first return to the orchestra in this role in the 2025-26 season.
In the 2024-25 season, Louis brings l’Opera Comique to Lille in a production of Gounod’s Faust. On the symphonic stage, he conducts the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall, Orchestre Metropolitain, and NDR Elbphilharmonie Symphonieorchester in concerts in Bremen, Lubeck and Hamburg. He will also conduct the Juilliard Orchestra in a programme of works by Ravel and will return to Interlochen and Ravinia Festival.
Recent highlights include performances of Thomas’ Hamlet, as well as new works by Holland, Dressner (US premiere) and Davis (world premiere) with Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and production of Carmen at the Edinburgh International Festival with Opera Comique.
A regular presence in New York since his 1998 debut, Langrée has conducted around 250 performances and concerts at Lincoln Center, Mostly Mozart Festival, Metropolitan Opera, and New York Philharmonic. Guest conductor appearances include the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, 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, and Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, and at festivals including Glyndebourne, Aix-en-Provence, BBC Proms, Edinburgh International, the Hong Kong Arts Festival, Wiener Festwochen, Salzburg Mozartwoche and Whitsun.
An advocate for the music of our time, Langrée has conducted world premieres by Daníel Bjarnason, Julia Adolphe, Guillaume Connesson, Anna Clyne, Jonathan Bailey Holland, David Lang, Julia Wolfe, Nico Muhly, André Previn, Caroline Shaw, and Christopher Rouse.
