LucieLeguay

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About Lucie

French conductor, Lucie Leguay continues to establish herself with leading orchestras and theatres of the world with a string of major debuts throughout the 25/26 season, including with Orchestre Symphonique Montreal, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic and Brno Philharmonic. Returns include Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liege, Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie and Ensemble Modern.

This follows Lucie’s successful 24/25 season which saw her debut with Orchestre National de France, and Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie and return to Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. She has also appeared with Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de Lyon, WDR Sinfonieorchester, MDR Sinfonieorchester, Orchestre Capitole de Toulouse Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Dortmund Philharmoniker, Nürnberger Symphoniker and Noord Nederlands Orkest.

In 2025/26 Lucie makes her German operatic debut leading a new production of Pelleas and Melisandre at Staatsoper Darmstadt and last season made her Opera Comique debut leading a world premiere production of Clara Olivares ‘Les Sentinelles’. She also stepped in to conduct a new production of ‘Il Barbiere di Siviglia’ at Opera de Nice, having made her debut in the 2023/24 season with a critically acclaimed double bill of Poulenc’s ‘Les Mamelles de Tiresias’ and Stravinksy’s ‘Le Rossignol’.

Lucie is a skilled conductor of contemporary music and has worked closely with Peter Eötvös, Heinz Holliger and Kaija Saariaho, to name a few, and regularly collaborates with Ensemble Modern and Ensemble Incontemporain.

Lucie is based in Paris

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Jack Haynes

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Edward Pascall

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Joy Pidsley

Joy Pidsley

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Season Highlights

Nov 2025
Maison Symphonique de Montréal
Works by Berlioz, Faure, Holmes, Massinet and Hahn Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (debut)
Jan 2026
Staatstheater Darmstadt
Debussy, Pelleas et Mélisande
Feb 2026
Ensemble Modern
Feb 2026
Janacek Theatre, Brno
Franck, Symphonic Variations D'Indy, Symphony on a French Mountain Air, Op. 25 Bartok, Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116, BB 123 Brno Philharmonic (debut)
Mar 2026
Salle Philharmonique de Liège
Price, Concert Overture No.1 Bernstein, Symphonic Dances from West Side Story Copland, Symphony for Organ and Orchestra Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège
Mar 2026
Debussy, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune Dvorak, Cello concerto in B minor, Op. 104 Mozart, Symphony No. 38 in D major 'Prague', K.504 BBC Philharmonic (debut)
May 2026
Konserthus, Stockholm
Boulanger, D’un Matin de Printemps Debussy, Printemps Saint-Saens, Symphony No. 3 in C minor. Op. 78 'Organ' Royal Stockholm Philharmonic (debut)
Jul 2026
Festival d'Aix-en-Provence

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  • Clara Olivares: Les Sentinelles

    Opéra Comique
    Apr 2025

    • This harmonization is achieved very well thanks to the careful conducting of a young woman, the talented Lucie Leguay. From the very first bars, she proves to be fundamental to the success of the performance, finding the right balance and colors for each passage.

    • The orchestra, that of the Bordeaux National Opera, accompanies with precision, under the baton of Lucie Leguay.

    • Lucie Leguay conducts the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine with conviction.

    • Lucie Leguay's conducting is notable for its great precision...synchronization must be maintained between the orchestra pit and the animation, the singing, and the recitation.

  • Rossini: The Barber of Seville

    Opéra de Nice
    May 2025

    • the greatest pleasure probably lies in the pit, with the direction of Lucie Leguay...at the head of the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra. The conductor strips down the score, revives its colors, gives it a second wind full of life and dynamism. Armed with her musicians, she creates superb musical reliefs, carrying us away from the first notes of the Overture which already offers a marked intention, sculpted in each note which emerges chiseled, revitalized. Rarely does a direction succeed in so much to enthuse us.

    • The musical direction of Lucie Leguay, conducting the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra, is energetic, precise, and airy, ensuring that the action never falters and that the large, brilliant rotary orchestra in the pit runs smoothly.

  • Puccini: Messa di Gloria

    Opera Comedie de Montpellier
    Sep 2024

    • total satisfaction for the musical direction of the young French conductor Lucie Leguay, at once sober, precise and balanced, who gives the Languedoc phalanx the right tone, with a performance leaving an impression of simplicity and obviousness.

  • Stravinsky & Poulenc

    Opera de Nice
    May 2024

    • La direction musicale de Lucie Leguay distille une battue ample, sereine et puissante en même temps. Elle offre à sa phalange cadrage et respiration, ce qui lui permet d’éviter les francs décalages entre la matière dense de la fosse et celle, plus évaporée, du plateau de Poulenc

    • On the podium, Lucie Leguay , with science and art, gave each Caesar what he deserved. From Stravinsky, a slow performance, ethereal at the beginning, well rhythmed from the second scene onwards. This contrasted with his treatment of Francis Poulenc's score that was both wise and also somewhat crazy. She accompanied the chorus prepared by Giulio Magnanini with softness and skill, and alternated moments of great lyricism with others of greater dynamism, all of them with great effect.

    • Au pupitre de l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice Lucie Leguay, révélation des Victoires de la Musique Classique 2023, dirige avec un professionnalisme et une précision qui forcent l’admiration deux partitions dont les difficultés stylistiques sont évidentes.

  • Borodin & Tchaikovsky

    Gran Teatro Cordoba, Spain
    Apr 2024

    • Lucie Leguay triumphed with a programme of enormous difficulty in which she confirmed as much courage as her own voice, and with a Cordoba Orchestra that excelled especially in the singular Tchaikovsky.

  • Saint-Saëns, Le Carnaval Des Animaux / Poulenc, Double Concerto

    Album, Alpha Classics
    Jun 2023

    • Conductor Lucie Leguay favours a sharp, incisive approach, and gets a colourful response from the Lille players

    • Leguay gets the balance between urbanity and nostalgia absolutely right.

  • Strauss II, La Chauve-Souris

    Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
    Mar 2022

    • (translation) This is the young conductor's third opera as musical director, and she seems perfectly at ease with the distinctive Viennese style. Her invigorating interpretation, marked by finely executed slowing down and always clear and frank changes of tempo, is fully convincing.

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