Franck Ollu is a versatile conductor, widely acknowledged as an expert in the field of contemporary and French music. During the 2017/18 season he will conduct the world premiere of A Wintery Spring by Saed Haddad, with a libretto based on poems by Khalil Gibran. This is a co-commission by Oper Frankfurt and the Ensemble Modern and will be presented alongside the baroque cantata The Bronze Snake by Jan Dismas Zelenka. This season he will also conduct a revival of Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg (Lille and Rennes) and a double bill of Dallapiccola’s Il Prigioniero and Rihm’s Das Gehege (La Monnaie and Stuggart).
Franck Ollu is a versatile conductor, widely acknowledged as an expert in the field of contemporary and French music. During the 2017/18 season he will conduct the world premiere of A Wintery Spring by Saed Haddad, with a libretto based on poems by Khalil Gibran. This is a co-commission by Oper Frankfurt and the Ensemble Modern and will be presented alongside the baroque cantata The Bronze Snake by Jan Dismas Zelenka. This season he will also conduct a revival of Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg (Lille and Rennes) and a double bill of Dallapiccola’s Il Prigioniero and Rihm’s Das Gehege (La Monnaie and Stuggart).
Last season, Franck made his debut at Basel Opera (Xenakis’ The Oresteia) and the Bolshoi Opera (Benjamin’s Written on Skin) and the BBC Philharmonic. He also returned to Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin (Rihm’s Jakob Lenz). Other recent opera productions have included performances at the Netherlands Opera, Théâtre des Champs Elysées (Paris) and Théâtre du Capitole (Toulouse).
Franck has been invited to conduct the world premiere performances of many important opera titles, including Bianchi’s Thanks to My Eyes, (Festival Aix-en-Provence), Dusapin’s Penthésiléa (La Monnaie) and Passion (Festival Aix-en-Provence). He conducted the first performance of Benjamin's first opera Into the Little Hill at Opéra Bastille in 2006 with many subsequent performances with the London Sinfonietta (Aldeburgh Festival and Linbury Theatre, Covent Garden), and with Ensemble Modern in New York and major festivals in Amsterdam, Vienna, Dresden and Frankfurt. Die Wunde Heine by Helmut Oehring was performed under his baton with both Ensemble Modern (Cologne MusikTriennale) and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen (Berlin Philharmonie).
His particularly close relationship with Ensemble Modern has led to numerous opera performances, including at the Salzburg Festival and of Heiner Goebbels’ Landschaft mit entfernen Verwanten at the Bockenheimer Depot in Frankfurt. They have also collaborated in orchestral repertoire, including at the Venice Biennale. Franck recently made his debut with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin, BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Opera House in Stockholm with Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, the Staatoper Berlin with Frank Martin's "Le vin herbé" and Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestras.
Franck is a committed teacher and mentor and has established relationships with the Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie and in London, at the Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music.
Management: ASKONAS HOLT
Alison Nethsingha
Senior Artist Manager
+44 (0)20 7400 1743
alison.nethsingha@askonasholt.co.uk
Germany
Frankfurt Oper / Ensemble Modern
Saed Haddad A Wintery Spring / Jan Dismas Zelenka Il Serpanto do Bronzo
Stuttgart Oper Dallapiccola Il Prigionnero / Rihm Das Gehege
France
Lille Opera Zemlinsky Der Zwerg
BELGIUM
Brussels
La Monnaie Dallapiccola Il Prigionnero / Rihm Das Gehege
Pelléas et Mélisande, Royal Opera Stockholm Även den franske dirigenten Franck Ollu är ytterst säker. Han ger oss en Debussy som är klar och kärv, inte den sortens vaga impressionism som är lös i hullet.
Am Pult steht diesmal im Großen Saal des RBB, der Franzose Franck Ollu, ein inspirierender Dirigent der Moderne aus der Schule von Boulez und Eötvös, auf den die Musiker sich verlassen können. Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Manoury, Zones de turbulences, « Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under the confident baton of Franck Ollu »
Frank Martin, Statts Oper Berlin, « vom französischen Experten für zeitgenössische Musik, Franck Ollu, mit Farbvielfalt spannungsvoll herausgearbeitet
Wolfgang Rihm Jakob Lenz « sous la direction imperturbablement zen de Franck Ollu. »
Dérive 2" (1988/2006) für 11 Instrumente, grandios gespielt vom Ensemble Modern unter der perfekten Leitung Franck Ollu Ensemble Modern
Benjamin, Into the Little Hill, Lincoln Center Festival «conducted grippingly by Franck Ollu»
Boulez, Le Marteau sans Maître, Queen Elizabeth Hall London, Aurora Orchestra « The expert ensemble was conducted with exactitude by Franck Ollu ».
unter dem hoch konzentrierten Dirigat von Franck Ollu auf fast schlafwandlerische Weise vertraut mit diesem neuen und oft hochkomplexen und virtuosen Werk Pascal Dusapins
Jakob Lenz Stuttgart Oper. "Drastik, Präzision und Ausdruckswucht dieser Musik wirken noch heute unverbraucht. Das Werk ist eine der meistgespielten zeitgenössischen Opern überhaupt. Am Pult der Stuttgarter Staatsoper bringt Franck Ollu die zwischen höchster Hoffnung und Vernichtung zerrissenen Suggestionen kühn und schroff und frei von Sentimentalitäten zur Geltung, die Instrumentalisten des Staatsorchesters spielen wie unter Hochspannung".
Passion Festival d'Aix en Provence La partition est finement interprétée par le jeune chef français Franck Ollu, qui donne à son geste précision et musicalité