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Robert Houssart
Conductor
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Biography
Robert Houssart brings the improvisatory flexibility of his early training as an organist to a very extensive repertoire of opera, ballet, and new music. Born in Haarlem, he was raised in the UK and studied at Cambridge and Manchester.
He appears at companies such as the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden, Opernhaus Zürich, Opéra National du Rhin Strasbourg, Teatr Wielki Opera Narodowa, Warsaw and Grand Theâtre de Genève. Houssart made his debut with the Australian premiere of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre at the Adelaide Festival.
From 2015-2024 he was resident conductor at the Royal Danish Opera and Royal Danish Ballet, Copenhagen, and conducted more than 200 performances there, including new operas such as Hans Abrahamsen’s The Snow Queen (world premiere), Louise Alenius’s Manualen, Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel and Powder Her Face, and David Bruce’s Nothing, alongside core repertoire including Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Strauss, and his advocacy of Entartete Musik.
His ballet credits include Giselle, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Onegin, Cinderella, Blixen, Countertime, The Dante Project, and Et Folkesagn.
His debut at the Paris Opera was in Calixto Bieito’s production of Adès’s The Exterminating Angel in 2024.
Currently in
- Opéra Bastille
- from 02 April to 12 May 2026
