Sylvain Cambreling

Sylvain Cambreling is one of the leading French operatic conductors. He is known for his often startling innovations in many opera productions: in a performance of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro at the 2001 Salzburg Festival he employed a synthesizer to deliver recitative accompaniments, and at a performance of Janácek's Katya Kabanova, he used some of the composer's songs as transitional material between acts. Cambreling also conducts orchestral concerts on a regular basis, and here as well he imparts imaginative touches to the programming: his concert bills might well mix d...