Sébastien Rouland is General Music Director (Generalmusikdirektor) at the Saarländisches Staatstheater in Saarbrücken, Germany. A cellist by training, he developed a passion for orchestral conducting very early on. Since 2002, he has conducted opera productions in Paris, Lyon, Strasbourg, Marseille, Vienna, Stuttgart, Wiesbaden, Essen, Berlin, Geneva, Lucerne, St. Gallen, Bergen, Lisbon, Tel Aviv, Mexico among others. In 2015 he made his debut at the Paris Opera with Gluck's Alceste. In opening the 2017/18 season of the Saarländisches Staatstheater, he conducted a new production of Guillaume Tell by Rossini, recorded and broadcast on Arte Concert. He also conducted a new production of Kuhlau's Lulu at the Royal Danish Opera, as well as a revival of The Tales of Hoffmann at the New National Theater in Tokyo. In 2019/20 he conducted, among other things, a new production of Cosí fan tutte at Staatsoper Hamburg and in 2020/21 Manon at the Staatsoper Hamburg and Trovatore in Saarbrücken. In 2021/22 he conducted Alcina, Tristan and Isolde as well as Carmen in Saarbrücken. He was invited with his orchestra to perform at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris and recorded a disc with saxophonist Asya Fateyeva.
Roulands vast repertoire ranges from Baroque music (with expertise in historically informed performance on period instruments) to music of today. In concert he has collaborated with, among others, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Handel Festival Orchestra in Halle, the Badische Staatskapelle in Karlsruhe, the Essen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, the St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra, the Zurich Camerata, the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, the Musiciens du Louvre and the Lyon National Orchestra. Besides The Tales of Hofmann at the Göteborg Opera in the season of 2022/23 he begins a new Ring cycle in Saarbrücken.