Austrian conductor dies whilst engaging in opera in Munich

The Austrian director, of Hungarian foundation, Stefan Soltesz died final morning, because of the cave in suffered whilst directing the opera “Die schweigsame Frau” – “The Silent Lady” -, by means of Richard Strauss, on the Nationwide Theater in Munich.

“It’s with nice surprise and ache that we will have to document the demise of Stefan Soltesz,” the Bavarian Nationwide Opera stated in a commentary issued this Saturday.

The overall director of the Munich Nationwide Opera, Serge Dorny, additionally conveyed his condolences over the demise of the maestro thru his Twitter account.

“We’ve misplaced a trainer. I’ve misplaced a just right good friend,” wrote Dorny, who conveyed his condolences to Soltesz’s spouse, Michaela.

Consistent with the preferred newspaper Bild, Soltesz fell to the bottom in the midst of the efficiency, whilst the target market and the level demanded the presence of a health care provider.

Born in Hungary in 1949, Soltesz evolved nearly his whole profession in Austria, in addition to within the operas of Hamburg and on the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, in Antwerp and Geneva.

He was once basic director of the Essen Philharmonic, in western Germany, between 1993 and 2013 and was once carefully related to the Bavarian Nationwide Opera since 1995.

Soltész performed at lots of the global’s nice opera homes, such because the Bayerische Staatsoper, Oper Frankfurt, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Budapest State Opera, Teatr Wielki in Warsaw, Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Paris Opera and the Zurich Opera.

He additionally performed recordings equivalent to excerpts from Puccini’s L. a. Bohème, Giuseppe Gazzaniga’s Don Giovanni and Alexander von Zemlinsky’s Der Kreidekreis, in addition to arias and songs with Grace Bumbry, Lucia Popp and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. In 2010, she recorded Alban Berg’s Lulu Suite and Hans Werner Henze’s Appassionatamente plus with the Essen Philharmonic and soprano Julia Bauer, throughout the framework of the Eu capital of Ruhr tradition. The album was once nominated for a Grammy Award.

(With data from EFE)

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