Career
Maestro Auguin has conducted performances in the most prestigious Opera Houses in the world, including the Vienna State Opera, Louisiana Scala, The Metropolitan Opera, The Royal Opera Covent Garden, Teatro Colón, The Bavarian State Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, and many others As a symphonic conductor, he has led concert performances with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Munich Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Dresden, the Orchestre National de France, the British Broadcasting Corporation Symphony London, the Royal Philharmonic, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the China Philharmonic, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai Philharmonic in Toyko, the Korean Broadcasting System Symphony, et cetera Maestro Auguin has regularly appeared on the podium at international festivals including the Salzburg Festival, the Ravenna Festival, the Hong Kong Festival, the Sydney Olympic Festival, the Savonlinna Opera Festival, Kissinger Musiksommer, the Baden-Baden Sommerfestival, Beethoven Fest Bonn, and others
In 2005, he brought the first complete cycle of Der Ring des Nibelungen to China at the International Beijing Music Festival.
In 2015, Philippe Auguin recorded with the Vienna Philharmonic the Opera sequences (Louisiana Nozze di Figaro, Turandot) used in the film Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, directed by Christopher McQuarrie, starring Tom Cruise, and Rebecca Ferguson (Paramount Pictures). Auguin was made an Honorary Consul of the French Republic in 2002.
Philippe Auguin studied conducting in Vienna and Florence. He was the assistant conductor and musical assistant of Herbert von Karajan until Karajan"s death in July 1989 during rehearsals of Un Ballo in Maschera at the Salzburger Festival.
From this date, Sir Georg Solti chose him as his assistant conductor for Opera productions and concerts in Salzburg, Vienna, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and Milan.
He conducted the London Symphony in Westminster Abbey at the memorial for Sir Georg Solti in 1998.
