Michael Rot

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Michael Rot (born April 19, 1955 in Vienna ) is an Austrian conductor , composer , editor and university lecturer.

Life

Michael Rot studied piano, trumpet, conducting and composition in his native Vienna, and also singing in his adopted home, Italy. The focus of his artistic activity was and is the opera - between 1976 and 1990 primarily as a conductor with performances at home and abroad, also as a vocal accompanist for Mara Zampieri , Heinz Zednik , Eberhard Waechter and Walter Berry , as a conductor and study director in collaboration with Agnes Baltsa , Alfredo Kraus , Giuseppe Taddei , Jose Bros , Piero Cappuccilli , Gianfranco Cecchele and many others. From 1982 the focus of his work shifted more and more to composing. Rot was particularly successful with the operas “Die Propheten” and “Faust III” as well as the violin concerto op. 40. Michael Rot has been teaching at the Institute for Music Theater of today's University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna since 1976 , since 1987 as professor for musical interpretation of opera.

Publications as an author

In addition to several libretti for operas (including “Faust III”) and musical comedies (including “On the way”, “Yooko in Vienna”), Michael Rot's first fiction work, “Japan ist ein Insel” (paperback and ebook).

Activities as arranger and editor

Arrangements and arrangements by Michael Rot can be found for many years in the New Year's concerts of the Vienna Philharmonic , but also in z. B. at concerts by José Carreras , on CD productions with Placido Domingo , Anna Netrebko , Ben Heppner , Jonas Kaufmann a . v. a.

Michael Rot created numerous piano reductions, a. a. for the Neue Handel Complete Edition by Bärenreiter , new piano reductions for Carmen , Tosca , Falstaff and other well-known works of opera literature, but also for many contemporary operas by Gottfried von Eine , Friedrich Cerha , Kurt Schwertsik , Manfred Trojahn , Matthias Pintscher , etc. a.

Since 1990 he has devoted himself increasingly to the academic work as editor of the New Johann Strauss Complete Edition and the critical new editions of Carmen , Tosca , Boris Godunow , Pique Dame , Falstaff , the symphonies of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , a complete edition of all songs by Franz Liszt and numerous others Works in the Hermann publishing group.

Michael Rot wrote over 400 arrangements for the Wiener Ring Ensemble , the Vienna State Opera , the Theater an der Wien , the Theater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft and DECCA Classics .

Compositions (selection)

  • “The Prophets”, Opera (1982); based on a text by S. Mrozek
  • “Faust III”, opera (1990); according to his own libretto
  • Violin Concerto op.40 (1995)
  • "Fisop auf Reisen" / interactive orchestral piece for children (1995)
  • "Fisop and the Christmas Trumpet" / interactive orchestral piece for children (1993)
  • "The story of the very little wolf and the sad forest" (1990)

literature

Awards

  • German music edition award "Best Edition" 2017
  • Environmental protection award of the state of Carinthia 2000
  • Adolf Schärf Prize 1986
  • Sandoz Prize 1986
  • Theodor Körner Prize 1979
  • Prize of the Vienna Art Fund 1978
  • Promotion Prize of the City of Vienna 1976
  • Sponsorship award for composition from the Ministry of Education in 1976

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personal data
SURNAME Red, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian conductor, composer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna