Choir director

French choral and orchestral conductor Guillaume Fauchère has been at the helm of the Chœurs de l'Opéra national de Lorraine since 2021. Before taking up his new post in France, he worked for almost fifteen years in Austria alongside a number of internationally renowned artists; He graduated in 2014 with a degree in orchestral conducting from the Vienna University of Music and Dramatic Arts (MDW), and was a baritone within the Arnold Schönberg Choir from 2007 to 2014, working with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Pierre Boulez, René Jacobs and Simon Rattle, and on opera stages in productions by Patrice Chéreau, Claus Guth and Robert Carsen.

In Vienna in 2013, he founded the vocal and instrumental ensemble Éclats de France, with whom he recorded the complete chansons of Poulenc, Debussy and Ravel, as well as numerous baroque works by Du Mont, Charpentier and Lully.
At the same time, he has concentrated on early music with specialist orchestras and vocal ensembles, conducting Bach's Christmas Oratorio, Handel's Messiah, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Haydn's Nelson Mass and Carissimi's Jephte. He also worked on the romantic and contemporary symphonic repertoire, and returned to opera in 2020, conducting Kálmann's Viennese operetta Countess Maritza during a tour of Germany.
He then took up his post in Nancy, where he worked as chorus master with, among others, Marie Jacquot, Giulio Cilona, Marta Gardolińska, Sora Elisabeth Lee, Ramon Tebar, Alexander Joel and Antonello Allemandi that he assisted on Tosca. He is also assistant conductor on Rigoletto, Fortunio and Ariane et Barbe Bleue. He also regularly conducts the opera's choirs in concert (Rossini's La Petite Messe Solennelle, Brahms's Liebesliederwalzer, French programmes around Berlioz, Fauré and Lili Boulanger) and in 2024 will be conducting Sing Along; large excerpts from Haydn's La Création at the Salle Poirel with the Opéra national de Lorraine orchestra for a major community choir project bringing together 200 amateur and professional choristers.