Philippe Auguin (born 19 February 1961,

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) is a French conductor. Auguin studied conducting at the

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. He also studied conducting with Franco Ferrara. He served as an assistant conductor to

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, until Karajan's death in July 1989 during rehearsals of '' Un Ballo in Maschera'' at the Salzburg Festival. He subsequently served as an assistant conductor to Sir Georg Solti. In 2005, Auguin conducted the first complete cycle of

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to China at the International Beijing Music Festival, with the Staatstheater Nürnberg. Auguin was music director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice from 2010 to 2016. Auguin first conducted at

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in 2009, as an emergency substitute for the company's then-music director, Heinz Fricke. In October 2010, the company appointed Auguin as its music director, with immediate effect. He held the post through the 2017-2018 season, and took the title of music director emeritus upon his departure from the company. Auguin was made an

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of the French Republic in 2002. In 2005, he received the

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of the German Republic for his contributions to German culture. In other media, Auguin recorded with the

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several opera sequences used in the film '' Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation''.

References

External links

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Crescendi Artists agency page on Philippe Auguin

Opéra Nice Côte d'Azur, French-language biography of Philippe Auguin
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