Roland Seiffarth

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Roland Seiffarth (* 1940 in Drebach in the Erzgebirge ) is a German conductor .

He studied at the University of Music in Leipzig and was engaged as a solo coach in 1963 and later as Kapellmeister at the Leipzig Opera . He made his debut as a conductor here in 1967, then conducted around thirty works from the repertoire such as Aida , Turandot , Porgy and Bess or West Side Story and also took on his own productions at the opera house, including La traviata , Die Fledermaus , Die Liebesprobe ( La pietra del paragone ) by Gioachino Rossini . From 1978 to 2007 Seiffarth worked as musical director and chief conductor at the musical comedy Leipzig. Since 2007 he has been honorary conductor of the Orchestra of Musical Comedy. The conductor now enjoys cult status among friends of the house.

Numerous guest conductors also took him beyond Leipzig, for example to the Dresden State Opera , the Berlin State Opera , the Metropol-Theater Berlin , the State Theater on Gärtnerplatz Munich and the Dresden State Operetta . From 1991 to 1996 he was a permanent guest conductor at the Graz Opera House and since 1996 he has been a regular guest at the Bern Opera House . Roland Seiffarth has conducted numerous opera and operetta galas with international stars, has been the conductor of the annual benefit gala with José Carreras for the German José Carreras Leukemia Foundation for several years and is an art award winner from the city of Leipzig . He made a special contribution to looking after the stage works by Robert Stolz and Franz Lehár . He does a lot for the young musicians by leading the operetta workshop Young Conductors.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biography on theaterderzeit.de. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Roland Seiffarth on oper-leipzig.de. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
  3. ^ Operetta workshop for young conductors ( memento from October 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), MDR from January 4, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Seiffarth, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Drebach