Valery Gergiev
Major opera productions at Festspielhaus Baden-Baden to date include "La traviata" (Valery Gergiev, conductor / Philippe Arlaud, director, 2001), "Fidelio" (Simone Young, conductor / Philippe Arlaud, director, 2002), "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" (Marc Minkowski, conductor / Macha Makeïeff and Jérôme Deschamps, directors, 2003), "The Ring of the Nibelung" (Valery Gergiev, musical direction and concept / George Tsypin, stage design, 2003/2004), "Rigoletto" (Thomas Hengelbrock, conductor / Philippe Arlaud, director, 2004), "Parsifal" (Kent Nagano, conductor / Nikolaus Lehnhoff, director, 2004) and "Die Zauberflöte" (Claudio Abbado, conductor / Daniele Abbado, director, 2005).