Jaroslav Opěla
Jaroslav Opěla (born May 22, 1935 in the Hrabová district in Ostrava , Czechoslovakia ; † June 25, 2016 in Munich ) was a Czech-German conductor .
Life
Jaroslav Opěla received violin lessons as a child in his native Moravian Ostrau in the Grabau district. He studied at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno under Břetislav Bakala and graduated with distinction. In 1958 he became conductor and head of the Czechoslovak State Philharmonic in Gottwaldov . Between 1958 and 1966 he made guest appearances in all parts of the country and in the Eastern Bloc.
Even before the Prague Spring , he moved to Germany in 1966 and became a master student of Rafael Kubelík and Franco Ferrara . In 1968 Rafael Kubelik appointed him to Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich , where he worked until 2000, first as assistant to the chief conductors of the symphony orchestra Rafael Kubelík, Sir Colin Davis and Lorin Maazel . During this time he also worked closely with Leonard Bernstein. From 1992 to 2000 he was director of the Munich Radio Orchestra .
Concerts, radio and television recordings have taken him to Italy, Great Britain, France, Austria, Luxembourg, Greece, Finland, Yugoslavia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Turkey and Switzerland, Taiwan and South Korea, where he was guest principal conductor in the 1971/72 season of the National Symphony Orchestra in Seoul.
From 1986 to 1995 he was engaged as a lecturer at the University of Music and Theater in Munich and head of the university orchestra. In 1986 he founded the " Camerata Nucleare ", the chamber orchestra of the German energy industry. From 1969 to 2014 he directed the traditional Wilde Gungl Munich Symphony Orchestra . In the anniversary concert in December 2014 he was appointed honorary conductor of the orchestra.
honors and awards
- 1968: Winner of the international conducting competition of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome
- 2014: Honorary conductor of the Wilde Gungl Symphony Orchestra, Munich
Web links
- Biography of Jaroslav Opela on the website of "Camerata Nucleare"
- Biography of Jaroslav Opela on the website of the "Wild Gungl"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Jaroslav Opela is dead: mourning the former director of the Munich Radio Orchestra | BR classic. Retrieved June 27, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Opěla, Jaroslav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Opela, Jaroslav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech-German conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ostrava |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 25, 2016 |
| Place of death | Munich |