The Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra (in German: Duisburger Philharmoniker) is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 orchestra

Orchestra

An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...

 based in Duisburg

Duisburg

- History :A legend recorded by Johannes Aventinus holds that Duisburg, was built by the eponymous Tuisto, mythical progenitor of Germans, ca. 2395 BC...

. The orchestra was founded in 1877.

Conductors include:

• Walter Josephson (1899 to 1920)
• Paul Scheinpflug (1920 to 1928)
• Eugen Jochum
  Eugen Jochum
  Eugen Jochum was an eminent German conductor.Born in Babenhausen, near Augsburg, Germany, Jochum studied the piano and organ in Augsburg until 1922. He then studied conducting in Munich...
  
   (1930 to 1933)
• Otto Volkmann (1933 to 1944).

After World War II Georg Ludwig Jochum

Georg Ludwig Jochum

Georg Ludwig Jochum was a German conductor and younger brother of better-known conductor Eugen Jochum....

 had the care of rebuilding the orchestra, followed by

• Walter Weller
  Walter Weller
  Walter Weller is an Austrian conductor and violinist.-Biography:Weller was born in Vienna, Austria where he first gained renown as a prodigy on the violin...
  
   (1971)
• Miltiades Caridis
  Miltiades Caridis
  Miltiades Caridis was a German-Greek conductor.Caridis was born in Gdańsk, then Free City of Danzig. His mother was a Danziger of German ethnicity, his father was a merchant from Greece. His family moved to Weimar Germany and he was raised in Dresden, but his family moved to Greece in 1938,...
  
   (1975 to 1981)
• Lawrence Foster
  Lawrence Foster
  Lawrence Foster is an American conductor.He became the conductor of the San Francisco Ballet at the age of 18, and served as Assistant Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta...
  
   (1982 to 1987)
• Alexander Lazarew (1988 to 1993)
• Bruno Weil
  Bruno Weil
  Bruno Weil is a symphonic conductor. He is principal guest conductor of Tafelmusik, the period-instrument group based in Toronto, Music Director of the Carmel Bach Festival in California, and artistic director of the period-instrument festival "Klang und Raum" in Irsee, Bavaria...
  
   (1994 to 2002).

English

England

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 conductor Jonathan Darlington

Jonathan Darlington

Jonathan Darlington is a British conductor and the Music Director of the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Vancouver Opera...

has been leading the symphonic orchestra since beginning of the theatrical season 2002/2003.

The Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra is the accompanying orchestra of the Duisburg
Opera "Deutsche Oper am Rhein".