Serge Baudo

Serge Baudo (born July 16, 1927, Marseille) is a French conductor, the son of the oboist Étienne Baudo. He is the nephew of the cellist Paul Tortelier.

Baudo was conductor of the Orchestra of Radio Nice from 1959 to 1962. He then served as permanent conductor at the Paris Opera from 1962 to 1965. Baudo became music director of the Orchestre philharmonique Rhône-Alpes, later the Orchestre National de Lyon, in 1971, and served in this post until 1987. During his time in Lyon, he founded the Berlioz Festival, in 1979. [Macdonald, Hugh, "Reports: Lyons" (1980). "The Musical Times", 121 (1653): p. 724.]

Baudo was principal conductor of the Prague Symphony Orchestra from 2001 to 2006. His other work with Czech orchestras includes a set of recordings of the complete symphonies of Arthur Honegger with the Czech Philharmonic.

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