Fabrice Bollon

Conductor & Composer

– General Management –

Born in Paris, Fabrice Bollon has been general music director and chief conductor of the Opera and the famous Staatskapelle Halle since the 2022/2023 season. He conducts numerous concerts and opera performances (Rosenkavallier, Faust, Die Fledermaus, La Boheme, Madama Butterfly, etc.), and makes guest appearances with this first-class ensemble at the Cologne Philharmonic, among others.  Their developed repertoire ranges from early baroque (with original instruments, a special feature of the Staatskapelle Halle playing as well baroque as modern instruments) to contemporary music, including pop and jazz. In addition to the more traditional symphony concerts, it creates special concert forms, appealing to a new audience. 
Fabrice Bollon also appears regularly as a composer; his very personal and original musical language works with doesn’t deny influences from very different musical stiles.  His works are published by Edition Peters and played by, among others, the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, the MDR Symphony Orchestra and the German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern as well as in various countries. His family opera „Oscar and the pink Lady“ was praised by critics as one of the few successful examples of this genre. His opera „The Folly, tragedy of Erasmus of Rotterdam“ has just been released on the Naxos label. 
This intensive collaboration with the international music label Naxos continues with the new recording of the ballet music „Joseph’s Legend“ by Richard Strauss as the first CD production by the Staatskapelle Halle and Fabrice Bollon. Other productions with early works by R. Strauss are being planned.
From 2009 to 2022, the student of Michael Gielen, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Georges Prêtre and Mauricio Kagel was general music director at the Freiburg Theater. Here he conducted the standard repertoire, the internationally acclaimed complete Ring des Niebelungen, as well as less frequently performed works such as Verdi’s „Jérusalem“, Boito’s „Mefistofele“, or breathtaking performances of Zandonai’s „Francesca da Rimini“, Wolf-Ferrari’s: „Gioielli della Madonna „, or Korngold’s „The Miracle of Héliane“. The CD and DVD recordings of some of these works received both national and international awards.
He also made guest appearances at the Stanislavsky Theater in Moscow, at the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest, at the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ljubljana Radio Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, with whom he recorded different CDs, the Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin, the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg, the SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, as well as in Hungary, Japan, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Austria and Monte Carlo, among others.