LucieLeguay

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About Lucie

French conductor, Lucie Leguay continues to establish herself with leading orchestras and theatres of the world. In the 2024/25 season she makes debuts with Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille and Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie. Lucie also makes her Stuttgart debut with Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz and returns to Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.

Lucie made a string of major debuts across the 2023/24 season including Orchestre de Paris, WDR Sinfonieorchester and MDR Sinfonieorchester, with returns to Orchestre Capitole de Toulouse and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. Lucie performs regularly in Het Concertgebouw with Noord Nederlands Orkest and has appeared with Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Dortmund Philharmoniker, Nürnberger Symphoniker, Orchestre National de Lyon and Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège.

On the operatic stage, this season Lucie makes her Opera Comique debut leading a world premiere production of Olivares’ Les Sentinelles with additional performances in Bordeaux and Limoges. Recent highlights include her Opera de Nice debut, with a critically acclaimed double bill of Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tiresias and Stravinksy’s Le Rossignol, and a revival of Carmen Case with performances around France and Luxembourg.

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

In 2023 Lucie was awarded the Victoires de la Musique Classique “Révélation Conductor” and made her Festival d’Aix debut conducting the Balthasar Neumann Orchestra.

Lucie is based in Paris

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Jack Haynes

Jack Haynes

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Edward Pascall

Edward Pascall

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Joy Pidsley

Joy Pidsley

Assistant Artist Manager

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Worldwide general management: Askonas Holt

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Season Highlights

Sep 2024
Opéra Comédie de Montpellier
Puccini: Messa di Gloria Orchestre National de Montpellier, Debut
Oct 2024
Auditorium du Pharo
Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail Overture Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor Op.64 Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 Francesca Dego (Violin) L'Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille, Debut
Dec 2024
Opéra National de Bordeaux
Olivares: Les Sentinelles (world premiere) Opéra National de Bordeaux
Apr 2025
Opéra de Limoges
Bizet / Soh: Carmen Case Opéra de Limoges
Apr 2025
Opera Comique
Olivares: Les Sentinelles Opera Comique, Debut
May 2025
Kultur & Kongresszentrum Stuttgart
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major Brahms: Symphony No.1 in C Minor Alexander Malofeev (Piano) Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz
May 2025
Auditorium de Radio France
l'Orchestre National de France
Jun 2025
Victoria Hall, Geneva
Vivaldi: Four Seasons Orchèstre de la Suisse Romande

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  • 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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