Sébastien Rouland

Biography

Conductor Sébastien Rouland will make his debut at the National Theatre Opera with a production of Jules Massenet's Werther in March 2025.

Sébastien Rouland has been General Music Director of the Saarland State Theatre since the 2018/2019 season. His extensive repertoire ranges from historically informed performance practice in the Baroque to the modern era. He has made guest appearances at numerous opera houses, most recently for Massenet's Hérodiade in Düsseldorf and Les contes d'Hoffman in Gothenburg, and previously in Berlin, Hamburg, Paris, Marseille, Strasbourg, Copenhagen, Vienna, Lucerne, Bern, Lisbon, Tokyo, Tel Aviv and Mexico City, among others. He has appeared on the concert platform with orchestras such as the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe, the Essen Philharmonic, the St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra, the Camerata Zurich, the Musiciens du Louvre and the Luxembourg Philharmonic. His current engagements include a new production of Les pêcheurs de perles at Munich's Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz as well as concerts in Lübeck and Athens, among others. His productions of La vie parisienne at the Opéra de Lyon and Le postillon de Lonjumeau at the Opéra Comique in Paris have been released on DVD by Virgin Classics and Naxos respectively, as well as a recording of Charles Lecocq's La fille de Madame Angot by Palazzetto Bru Zane. Sébastien Rouland opened Bodo Busse's directorship at the Saarland State Theatre with Rossini's Guillaume Tell. As General Music Director, he has previously conducted Gounod's Faust, Mozart Le nozze di Figaro, Verdi's Don Carlos, Il trovatore and La forza del destino, Handel's Alcina, Bizet's Carmen and Wagner's Tristan und Isolde and Das Rheingold. He has also made a name for himself with the Saarland State Orchestra on the concert platform and in guest appearances, including at the Tonhalle Zurich and with the new Saarbrücken Ring des Nibelungen at the Opéra Royal de Versailles.