French and Swiss conductor Bertrand de Billy is one of the most important artists on both the opera stage and the concert platform. He is a regular guest at the Wiener Staatsoper, where he conducts in 2023-24 the new production of Les Dialogues des Carmélites, as well as Tosca, Guillaume Tell, Don Giovanni and Faust. Alongside this he returns to the Staatsoper unter den Linden with Macbeth and to the Opera de Paris with a new production of La Vestale with Lydia Steier as director. On the concert podium he gives concerts with the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo.

He conducts some of the world's most prestigious orchestras, including the Cleveland Orchestra, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Orchestre de Paris, the Wiener Symphoniker, The Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester, the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Dresdner Philharmonie, the Wiener Philharmoniker, the Royal Danish Orchestra, theNHK Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, theTokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, among others.

De Billy conducts a broad repertoire ranging from Bach to numerous world premieres. Today he works just as closely with the Wiener Staatsoper, the Theater an der Wien, the Wiener Musikverein and the Wiener Konzerthaus as he does with the Bayerische Staatsoper. He is guest conductor at Covent Garden in London and the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Bertrand de Billy was born in Paris where he studied music and performed as a member of an orchestra before taking up conducting. He was Principal Choirmaster and Deputy Music Director at the Anhaltisches Theater Dessau, and then at the Volksoper Wien. He was Music Director of the Gran Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona, and assumed after that the same position at the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien. Bertrand de Billy was also Principal Guest Conductor of the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester until December 2015, and of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne until the end of the 2017-18 season. Additionally, from 2014 to 2018, he was Principal Guest Conductor of the Dresdner Philharmonie.

Numerous CD and DVD recordings document his artistic work. 

In France, he is a "chevalier de l'Ordre national de la Légion d'Honneur", "du Mérite National" and "des Arts et Lettres". In Austria, he was awarded the "Goldene Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik österreich", the equivalent of the Legion of Honour.