Dietfried Bernet
Dietfried Bernet (born May 14, 1940 in Vienna ; † May 23, 2011 in Hohenems , Vorarlberg ) was an Austrian conductor and author .
Life
Dietfried Bernet studied in Vienna with Hans Swarowsky and Dimitri Mitropoulos , conducted his first concerts at the Wiener Musikverein at the age of 18 and won 1st prize at the International Conducting Competition in Liverpool at the age of 22. At the age of 23 he conducted Verdi's La traviata at the Spoleto Festival (director: Luchino Visconti ), at the age of 24 he was conductor at the Vienna Volksoper , at the age of 26 conductor at the Vienna State Opera , and at the age of 34 general music director of the city of Mainz . From 1995 to 2000 he was guest chief conductor at the Royal Copenhagen Opera House.
He has made regular guest appearances with the major orchestras in Europe and overseas, the London Philharmonic Orchestra , Royal Philharmonic Orchestra , Vienna Symphony , Berlin Philharmonic , Orchester National de France , Chicago Symphony Orchestra , Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Santa Cecilia Orchestra in Rome, Japan Philharmonic and Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra Moscow.
He conducted at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires , at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice , at La Monnaie in Brussels as well as Zurich, Hamburg, USA, Canada, Brazil, Chile, conducted at major opera houses such as Royal Opera House London, English National Opera , Houston Grand Opera, Vienna State Opera , Deutsche Oper Berlin , Berlin State Opera , Bavarian State Opera , Hamburg State Opera , Cologne, Stuttgart, Monte Carlo, Catania, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, Teatro San Carlo, Naples and many more
From 2005 to 2008 he was honorary conductor and music director of the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra , conducted at the Salzburg Festival , the Spoleto Festival, the Glyndebourne Festival 1996, 1999, 2005, the Bregenz Festival in 2002 (CD recording Julietta by Bohuslav Martinů ) and 2005 In addition, numerous radio, television and CD recordings were made.
Dietfried Bernet is a composer with a work published by Universal-Edition, for the Bärenreiter Verlag he translated the Czech opera Julietta by Bohuslav Martinů into German together with Aleš Březina and is the author of the book Arguments for the gentleman in tails: What you already always wanted to know about conducting.
Bernet had been a member of the Equality Lodge since 1970 and a founding member of the Zur Truth Lodge in 1974 .
Awards
- Professional title Professor (awarded by the Austrian Federal President)
- Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st Class (2001)
- Multiple awards with the "Premio de Criticos" by the "Circolo de Criticos"
Fonts
- Arguments for the gentleman in tails. Everything you always wanted to know about conducting Limbus Verlag, Hohenems 2008, ISBN 3-902534-14-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Dietfried Bernet in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Conductor Dietfried Bernet died at 71 . europeonline-magazine.eu. May 23, 2011. Archived from the original on May 26, 2011. Retrieved on October 4, 2015.
- ^ Günter K. Kodek: The chain of hearts remains closed. Members of the Austrian Masonic lodges 1945 to 1985. Löcker, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-85409-706-8 , p. 22 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bernet, Dietfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian conductor and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna , Austria |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 23, 2011 |
| Place of death | Hohenems |