The repertory that Jean-Claude Casadesus and the Lille National Orchestra have explored together stretches from Berlioz to the music of our time and includes such important works as: Berlioz (Te Deum, Requiem, Damnation of Faust, Symphonie Fantastique), Beethoven (integral of the symphonies and concert), Stravinsky (Rite of Spring, Firebird, Petrouchka), Poulenc (Gloria, Stabat Mater, Organ Concerto), Dutilleux (Metaboles, Symphonies 1 and 2), Messiaen (L'Ascension, Offrande Oubliées, Turangalia Symphony, Et Expecto Ressurrectionem Mortuorum), Verdi's Requiem, all of the Mahler Symphonies and the complete works of Ravel and Debussy.   Jean-Claude Casadesus is a regular guest with the Prague Symphony Orchestra, St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra, Dresden Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Madrid RTVE, Mozarteum Salzburg, Yomiuri National Symphony and the New Japan Philharmonic. He also had an outstanding success at the head of the St Petersburg Philharmonic in two programmes including Strauss' Ein Heldenleben and Bizet's Symphony in C, which lead the musicians of the orchestra to write to their Music Director requesting that Casadesus be asked to return. More recently he conducted the Berliner Sinfonie Orchester in a programme including Sheherazade by both Ravel and Rimsky-Korsakov, and returns to the orchestra in April 2004.   His success with the Philadelphia Orchestra in March 1999 led to an invitation to conduct the Orchestra again in November 2001. In the same season he also conducted the Utah Symphonies and Montreal Symphony where he will return in July 2002. Jean-Claude Casadesus is also an active operatic conductor, from Lille, Paris, Brussels, Geneva, Barcelona and Antwerp through the major festivals, including Aix-en-Provence and Orange. Werther, Carmen, Tales of Hoffman, le Bal Masqué, Cosi fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Dido and Aeneas, Pelleas and Melisande are the operas he has most frequently conducted, in addition to lesser known works such as Dargomyjski's Le Convive de Pierre. Maestro Casadesus recently conducted Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann at the Flanders Opera and Massenet's Werther at the Geneva Opera, both of which he recorded for Naxos.   Jean-Claude Casadesus has made numerous recordings with the Lille National Orchestra for Harmonia Mundi, Forlane, Erato and EMI. Mahler symphonies 1, 2, 4 and 5, Bizet's Clovis et Clotilde with Montserrat Caballe and two Mahler / Wagner albums with José van Dam are just a few of their recordings which have won recognition and awards from the Académie du Disque Francais, the SACEM and the Nouvelle Académie du Disque. He now records for the NAXOS label which has released his recording of Massenet Werther, Debussy Pelleas et Melisande, St Saens Symphony n°3, Poulenc Concerto with organ and Berlioz L'Enfance du Christ, all of which have received outstanding praise from both the public and the press.