Victorien Vanoosten

Victorien Vanoosten is Music Director of the Opéra de Toulon and Principal Guest Conductor of the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra. He is also Artistic and Music Director of the Ensemble Symphonique de Neuchâtel. In spring 2025, he conducted the orchestra of Deutsche Oper Berlin in Edward Clug’s new story ballet A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a production of Staatsballett Berlin. In 2022, he had already conducted performances of Clug’s ballet Peer Gynt at the Zurich Opera House, and in 2025 also at La Scala in Milan. In October 2025, he led the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse in performances of Thierry Malandain’s ballet Daphnis et Chloé with the Ballet du Capitole.

At the Opéra de Toulon, he conducted two concert performances of Richard Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman in February 2026, followed in June 2026 by performances of Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly in a production by the Opéra de Toulon, taking place in the historic Châteauvallon amphitheatre in Ollioules in the French department of Var. In April 2025, he conducted a performance of Jules Massenet’s Werther at the National Theatre in Prague. In the concert sphere, Victorien Vanoosten has recently collaborated with, amongst others, the Orchestre du Pays basque, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice and the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra.

Victorien Vanoosten was assistant to Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin and, prior to that, assistant to Lawrence Foster at the Opéra de Marseille. He studied piano with Michel Béroff at the Paris Conservatoire and conducting with Esa-Pekka Salonen, Alain Altinoglu, Leif Segerstam, David Zinman, Peter Eötvös and Pierre Boulez in Paris and Helsinki. In 2016, he won the ADAMI Conducting Competition. He was principal conductor of DEMOS, a youth orchestra project founded by the Philharmonie de Paris. In 2023, he was appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in recognition of his services to the arts.

(Information as of March 2026)