Wolfgang Götz (choir director)

Wolfgang Götz (born in Augsburg ) is a German conductor and choir director who has lived and worked in Salzburg since 2008 .

life and work

Götz was a choirboy with the Augsburg Cathedral Boys' Choir . He studied choir conducting with Kurt Suttner and conducting with Ulrich Weder and Sergiu Celibidache in Munich. As a conductor, pianist and director of studies he worked a. a. at the city theaters of Passau and Baden , at the Theater Basel , at the Städtische Bühnen Wuppertal , the Opéra de Lille and the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. In 1996 he was Claudio Abbado's assistant at the Salzburg Easter Festival . In 2006 he was engaged for the first time as a director of studies at the Salzburg Festival . In the same year he led the choir in the first Indian opera production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly at the National Center of Performing Arts in Mumbai . Since 2008 he has been leading the Salzburg Festival and Theater Children's Choir , and since 2010 he has been engaged in the same function and as director of studies at the Salzburg State Theater.

personal data
SURNAME	Götz, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German conductor and choir director
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH	uncertain: Augsburg