SergeDorny

Serge Dorny studied art history, archaeology, musicology, and communication at the University of Ghent and music at the city’s conservatory. In 1983 he joined the La Monnaie/De Munt opera house as dramaturg under Gerard Mortier, before joining the Festival van Vlaanderen, of which he became artistic director in 1989. In 1996, he was appointed Chief Executive and Artistic Director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the resident orchestra at the South Bank Centre in London, which also performs at the Glyndebourne festival’s opera season. He was General Director of the Opéra National de Lyon from 2003 – 2021. In the 2021-22 season, he started his tenure as General Director of the Bavarian State Opera House.

Serge Dorny is a Board Member of the Bayerische Rundfunk and the Concours Reine Elisabeth (Queen Elisabeth Competition) in Brussels. He has also served on the jury of international music competitions, including Helsinki and Bamberg (for conductors) and Monte Carlo (for pianists), and has lectured at the University of Zurich in the Executive Master in Arts Administration study programme and at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala.

He has received various awards, including an honorary doctorate from the Université du Québec à Montréal in 2008; he became a Knight of “L’ordre national de la Légion d’honneur” in 2012; Commander of the “Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” in 2021, and Officer of the “Order of the Crown” in Belgium in 2013.

His publications include “L’avenir d’un passé” (with Johan Thieleman) and “Penser l´opéra à present” (Actes Sud, 2021).