Stefan Soltesz

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Stefan Soltész (born January 6, 1949 ) is an Austrian conductor of Hungarian origin and was artistic director of the Aalto-Musiktheater and general music director in Essen from 1997 to 2013 .

Life

Stefan Soltész was born in Nyiregyhaza (Hungary) and came to Vienna in 1956, where he became a member of the Vienna Boys' Choir . He studied conducting with Hans Swarowsky as well as composition and piano at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts .

In 1971 he began his career as Kapellmeister at the Theater an der Wien , which was followed by engagements as a répétiteur and conductor at the Vienna State Opera (1973–83) and as a guest conductor at the Graz Opera House (1979–81). During the Salzburg Festival (1978, 1979 and 1983) he also worked as a musical assistant to Karl Böhm , Christoph von Dohnányi and Herbert von Karajan .

Soltész held positions as permanent conductor at the Hamburg State Opera (1983–1985) and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (1985–1997). From 1988 to 1993 he worked as general music director at the Braunschweig State Theater and as chief conductor from 1992 to 1997 at the Flemish Opera Antwerp / Gent .

From 1997 until the end of the 2012/13 season, Soltész was the artistic director of the Aalto Theater in Essen , which was voted “Opera House of the Year” in the critics' survey by the magazine “Opernwelt” in 2008, and was general music director until the end of the 2012/2013 season the Essen Philharmonic , which was “Orchestra of the Year” in 2003 and 2008.

Soltész is a regular guest conductor at the Vienna State Opera and at the major opera houses in Germany (including Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne). Other focal points of his work are the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, the Budapest State Opera, the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw, the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow and the Grand Théâtre de Genève. He has also made guest appearances at the Paris and Zurich Opera, De Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, Teatro Massimo Bellini Catania, the Bilbao Opera, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Japan, Taiwan, the Washington and San Francisco Opera , in Covent Garden , as well as at the festivals in Montpellier , Aix-en-Provence and Savonlinna , the Whitsun Festival in Baden-Baden, anima mundi in Pisa, the Tongyeong Festival (Korea) and the Glyndebourne Festival.

Symphony concerts and radio recordings conducted by Soltész a. a. in Munich, Hamburg, Hanover, Dresden, Berlin, Saarbrücken, Bremen, Wiesbaden, Heidelberg, Vienna, Rome, Catania, Turin, Milan, Genoa, Verona, Trieste, Basel, Bern, Paris, Moscow, Taipei, Nagoya and Budapest.

His CD recordings include a. Operas by Giacomo Puccini (“ La Bohème ”), Giuseppe Gazzaniga (“Don Giovanni”) and Alexander von Zemlinsky (“Der Kreidekreis”) as well as arias and songs with Grace Bumbry , Lucia Popp and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau . His recording of Alban Berg's "Lulu" suite and Hans Werner Henze's "Appassionatamente plus" with the Essen Philharmonic was nominated for a Grammy and an ICMA.

Awards

literature

  • Klaus Umbach : Music theater - In frenzy and bow. With the "Don Giovanni" production by Stefan Herheim, the Essen opera finally made the leap into top European class . In: Der Spiegel . No. 13 , March 26, 2007, p. 158–159 ( spiegel.de [accessed on August 21, 2020]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Fasel: "I dream of a magic flute of our time" . In: The world . September 8, 2001 ( welt.de [accessed May 6, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Stefan Soltesz becomes honorary conductor ( memento from December 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), in: Braunschweiger Zeitung from January 3, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Soltesz, Stefan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Soltész, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian conductor and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Nyiregyhaza (Hungary)