Rory Macdonald

The Scotland native returns to Lyric this season to reprise a work he has previously led at San Francisco Opera, Copenhagen’s Royal Danish Opera, and Opera Australia in Sydney. After studying music at Cambridge University, Macdonald worked as assistant conductor to Iván Fischer (Budapest Festival Orchestra), Sir Mark Elder (Hallé Orchestra), and Antonio Pappano (London’s Royal Opera House, as a member of the Jette Parker Young Artist Program). Among his most important engagements since then have been appearances at Glyndebourne (Idomeneo, Così fan tutte, Albert Herring), London’s English National Opera (L’elisir d’amore, The Pearl Fishers, The Barber of Seville), Toronto’s Canadian Opera Company (Carmen, The Barber of Seville), Houston Grand Opera (The Rape of Lucretia, Carmen), The Santa Fe Opera (Carmen), Bergen National Opera (The Cunning Little Vixen), Wexford Festival Opera (Delius’s A Village Romeo and Juliet), Vienna Konzerthaus (The Turn of the Screw) and works of Rossini, Humperdinck, Wagner, Beethoven and Britten at the Royal Opera House. Highlights of the current season include Carmen (Lisbon) and Die Fledermaus (Santa Fe). Macdonald’s orchestral appearances include performances with all the major British ensembles, as well as the leading orchestras of Oslo, Bergen, Copenhagen, Toulouse, Adelaide, Stuttgart, Nagoya, and Amsterdam, among many others.

Previously at Lyric: The Magic Flute (2016|17); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2010|11).

Last updated: December 10, 2016
Photo: Marco Borggreve