Press

• Opera "Macbeth Underworld" by Pascal Dusapin

  Opéra Comique, Paris

  Oct 2023 - Nov 2023

  • Dusapin crafted the new story into a nocturnal, dreamlike, disturbing, enormously colourful and sensual Opera. With science and art, Franck Ollu offered a powerful musical interpretation of the feelings of guilt and apprehension from the very first notes.

    • Ópera Actual
    • 08 November 2023

• Opera "Shirine" by Thierry Escaich - World Premiere

  Opera De Lyon

  Apr 2022 - May 2022

  • D'un bras d'acier, Franck Ollu guide dans ces intrigants et foisonnants dédales les forces musicales de l'Opéra de Lyon, ainsi qu'une distribution de haut vol. With an arm of steel, Franck Ollu guides the musical forces of the Opéra de Lyon and a high-flying cast through these intriguing and teeming mazes. Sous la direction du champion de la modernité Franck Ollu et dans une mise en scène du directeur de la maison lyonnaise Richard Brunel, Jeanne Gérard et Julien Behr incarnent le couple auquel est promis une partition foisonnante et enluminée par un Orient de legends. Under the direction of Franck Ollu, champion of modernity, and in a production by Richard Brunel, director of the Lyon-based company, Jeanne Gérard and Julien Behr embody the couple to whom is promised an abundant score illuminated by an Orient of legends.

    • Diapason
    • 09 May 2022

  • Sur scène, comme dans la fosse où Franck Ollu dirige vigoureusement l’Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon, le conformisme est de rigueur. On stage, as in the pit where Franck Ollu vigorously conducts the Orchester de l'Opéra de Lyon, conformity is essential.

    • Le Monde
    • 04 May 2022

  • La direction de Franck Ollu cherche plus le punch que la dentelle. The direction of Franck Ollu seeks more punch than lace.

    • Le Figaro
    • 05 May 2022

• "Penthesilea" DVD

  La Monnaie De Munt, Brussels

  Sep 2019 - Sep 2019

  • ★★★★★ The recording from the Monnaie performances is wonderfully clear and spacious. Every detail of the orchestral writing, with the electronics that Duspain uses very sparingly, registers under Franck Ollu…. this is a lingeringly powerful piece of music theatre, no doubt of it.

    • The Guardian
    • 12 September 2019

• Opera "Pelléas et Mélisande" by Claude Debussy

  Opera du Rhin, Strasbourg

  Sep 2018 - Nov 2018

  • Like "the floor that breathes" (Boulez), the orchestra conducted by Franck Ollu keeps itself from any excess, scrupulously respecting Debussy's indications, never swallowing the voices. Subtle, refined, but able to underline the "expressive" indications that Debussy embellishes his score, without ever falling into an expressionist or verist bias, he sings, from the prelude, clear and profound, retained as it should be. The flexibility, the precision of the lyrical declamation animated by the conductor, the breaths he imposes deserve to be underlined. This last one from Strasbourg will be remembered in all memories.

    • Forum Opéra
    • 27 October 2018

• "Il prigioniero & Das Gehege" by Luigi Dallapiccola, Wolfgang Rihm

  La Monnaie De Munt, Brussels

  Dec 2017 - Jan 2018

  • Nevertheless, the most beautiful link between two parts of unequal strength is none other than Franck Ollu, undoubtedly one of the best performers of the contemporary repertoire. Rihm is not conducted like Mozart, and the conductor's gestures, as attentive to the entrances of singers as to his musicians, are ballet.

    • L'Echo
    • 17 January 2018