Paul Ethuin (Bruay-sur-l'Escaut, 24 September 1924 – Reims, 1 November 2011) was a French conductor who was particularly associated with building up the opera company in Rouen[1] and who conducted an important Ring Cycle in France in the 1960s.
Outside France Ethuin conducted in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Dublin and some Italian centres.
[5] In 1969 Ethuin conducted a cycle of Der Ring des Nibelungen in Rouen with an international cast including Ludmila Dvořáková, Helga Dernesch, Richard Holm, Gustav Neidlinger and Kurt Moll.
[6] He conducted rare modern revivals at the Théâtre des Arts in Rouen of L'Aiglon by Honegger in 1977, and of Messager's La Basoche in 1979.
[8] In 2007 Video Arts International issued a DVD of a 1973 performance of Faust with the NHK Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ethuin, with Alfredo Kraus, Renata Scotto and Nicolai Ghiaurov in the principal roles.