Wolfgang Bozic

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Wolfgang Bozic (2010)
Wolfgang Bozic (2010)

Wolfgang Bozic (born November 9, 1947 in Graz ) is an Austrian conductor.

Life

Wolfgang Bozic grew up in Graz . During his school days he began his training as a pianist at the conservatory in his hometown, today's University of Music and Performing Arts . After graduating from high school he studied piano and conducting there and graduated with honors in 1969. He then studied on a scholarship for a year at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome with Franco Ferrara and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Carlo Zecchi and Bruno Maderna . In 1970 he was initially hired as a solo repetitor at the Graz Opera House , where he took on his own conducting from 1971. In 1972 he conducted the Austrian premiere of Benjamin Britten's opera “ Death in Venice ” there. In 1981 he was the winner of the " Karl Böhm Competition ."

From 1975 to 2001 he held the position of first conductor at the Graz Opera House . In addition to works from the German and Italian repertoire (including numerous operas by Richard Strauss , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Richard Wagner , Giacomo Puccini , Giuseppe Verdi , Alban Berg ), he directed four productions of a Janáček cycle there in 1996/97 , which included the operas " Jenůfa " , " Káťa Kabanová ", " The Excursions of Mr. Brouček " and " From the House of the Dead " included, as well as numerous concerts and several world premieres as part of the " Styrian Autumn ", for example. B. by Otto M. Zykan and Wolfgang Rihm .

Regular guest conductors in concerts and operas have also taken him to the Vienna Symphony Orchestra , the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Volksoper, the Budapest Symphony Orchestra , the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria , the Saarland State Theater , the Hamburg State Opera, the Latvian National Opera in Riga, the Seoul Metropolitan Opera (1996 Korean premiere of “ Rosenkavalier ” by Richard Strauss ), to the Theater Basel , to the Bruckner Orchester Linz (“ Tannhauser ”, “ Cenerentola ”, “ The Barber of Seville ” and others), to the Teatro Verdi Triest (“ Wozzeck ”,“ Salome ”,“ Peter Grimes ”and others), to the Teatro Filarmonico di Verona / Arena di Verona , to the Komische Oper Berlin and to the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra Tokyo] (2008“ Aida ”staged by Peter Konwitschny , 2011 a concert program). In 2002 he moved to the Volksoper Vienna for two years .

From 2006 to 2011 he was General Music Director of the Lower Saxony State Orchestra of the Hanover State Opera . In addition to operas by u. a. Benjamin Britten , Giuseppe Verdi and Leoš Janáček , he also led Richard Wagner's entire “Ring” cycle under the direction of Barrie Kosky . He also designed and directed concerts with works a. a. by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Ludwig van Beethoven , Franz Schubert , Antonín Dvořák , Igor Stravinsky , Pjotr ​​Iljitsch Tschaikowski , Anton Webern and Gustav Mahler .

From 1986 until his retirement in 2017, he was full professor for score playing and accompaniment at the Graz University of Music and Performing Arts.

Wolfgang Bozic is married to the writer Jenny Erpenbeck and lives in Berlin and Graz.

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Participation

As an actor in the film A Swimming Accident (1976), directed by Fritz Umgelter

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Österreichisches Musiklexikon vol. 1, published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Commission for Music Research, under Leitg v. Rudolf Flotzinger, 2002
  2. ↑ a b c d Ernst Naredi-Rainer, Neue Zeit, June 27, 1975
  3. ↑ a b Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, ed. Genossenschaft deutscher Bühnenangerbeiger, season 1991/1992, p. 572; 487
  4. ↑ a b Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, published by the Cooperative of German Theater Members, 1992/1993 season, p. 585; 264
  5. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, published by the Cooperative of German Theater Members, 1993/1994 season, p. 511
  6. ↑ a b Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, ed. Genossenschaft deutscher Bühnenangerbeiger, season 1994/1995, p. 521; 549
  7. ↑ a b Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, ed. Genossenschaft deutscher Bühnenangehöriger, 1995/1996 season, p. 545; 575
  8. ↑ a b Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, ed. Genossenschaft deutscher Bühnenangehöriger, season 1996/1997, p. 66; 561
  9. ^ Hansjörg Spies, Grazer Kleine Zeitung, January 3, 1997
  10. ↑ a b Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, ed. Genossenschaft deutscher Bühnenangehöriger, season 1997/1998, p. 572; 583
  11. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, edited by Genossenschaft deutscher Bühnenangerbeiger, 1998/1999 season, p. 573
  12. ↑ a b Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, ed. Genossenschaft deutscher Bühnenangerbeiger, 1999/2000 season, p. 584; 597
  13. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, ed. Genossenschaft deutscher Bühnenangerbeiger, 2000/2001 season, p. 578
  14. ↑ Manfred Blumauer, Grazer Kleine Zeitung, June 3, 1997
  15. ^ Announcements of the Musikverein für Steiermark, concerts of the 1996/1997 season
  16. ↑ a b c d Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, ed. Genossenschaft deutscher Bühnenangehöriger, season 2002/2003, p. 645; 593; 618
  17. ↑ a b Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, published by the Cooperative of German Theater Members, season 2003/2004, p. 616
  18. ↑ a b Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, ed. Genossenschaft deutscher Bühnenangerbeiger, season 2004/2005, p. 643; 63; 580
  19. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, ed. Genossenschaft deutscher Bühnenangerbeiger, season 2005/2006, p. 641; 580
  20. ↑ a b Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, published by the Cooperative of German Theater Members, 2001/2002 season, p. 597
  21. ↑ Stagione Sinfonica d´Autunno 1998, magazine of the Teatro Verdi Trieste
  22. ^ Ronald Meyer-Arlt, Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, April 22, 2005
  23. ^ Ronald Meyer-Arlt, Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, April 22, 2005
  24. ^ Henning Queren, Neue Presse, April 22, 2006
  25. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, published by the Cooperative of German Stage Members, 2006/2007 season, p. 289
  26. ^ Rainer Wagner, Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, September 11, 2006
  27. ^ Rainer Wagner, Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, September 18, 2006
  28. ↑ a b Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, season supplement October 2006
  29. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, ed. Genossenschaft deutscher Bühnenangerbeiger, 2007/2008 season, pp. 268/269
  30. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, ed. Genossenschaft deutscher Bühnenangerbeiger, season 2008/2009, p. 272
  31. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, ed. Genossenschaft deutscher Bühnenangerbeiger, 2009/2010 season, p. 271
  32. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, ed. Genossenschaft deutscher Bühnenangerbeiger, 2010/2011 season, p. 270
  33. ↑ Dorothea Hartmann, Seitenbühne 05-07, 2011, Journal der Staatsoper Hannover
  34. ^ Johanna di Blasi, Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, July 7, 2010
  35. ↑ Dorothea Hartmann, Seitenbühne 05-07, 2011, Journal der Staatsoper Hannover

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personal data
SURNAME Bozic, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian conductor
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz