Alain Lombard

Alain Lombard (born 4 October 1940, Paris) is a French conductor. Lombard attended the Conservatoire de Paris, where his studied violin with Line Talleul and conducting with Gaston Poulet. He subsequently secured an appointment at the Opéra National de Lyon in 1961, and later became principal conductor from 1961 to 1965. He was a gold medal winner at the Dmitri Mitropoulos Competition in 1966. He made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1967, conducting Gounod's Faust. He was an assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic during the music directorship of Leonard Bernstein, and traveled with the orchestra as Associate Tour Conductor. In the US, he was music director of the Greater Miami Philharmonic Orchestra from 1967 to 1975. Lombard assisted in the formation of the Opéra du Rhin (later the Opéra national du Rhin) in 1972. He was music director of the Opéra du Rhin from 1974 to 1980. With the Opéra du Rhin, he conducted commercial recordings of Gounod's Faust, Puccini's Tura...