Wolfgang Rennert

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Wolfgang Rennert (born April 1, 1922 in Cologne ; † March 24, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German conductor.

Life

Wolfgang Rennert was the youngest son of the district school councilor Alfred Traugott Rennert (* 1879) and Adelheid Rennert nee. Nettesheim, the oldest of his brothers was the director Günther Rennert . Wolfgang Rennert completed his training at the Mozarteum Salzburg a . a. with Clemens Krauss . From 1947 he was initially a répétiteur at the Düsseldorf Opera House . From 1950 to 1953 he was director of studies and conductor at the Kiel Opera , until 1967 first conductor and deputy general music director of the Frankfurt Opera , then chief conductor of the Theater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich. In the 1968/69 season, Artistic Director Hans Pischner engaged him for the first time as a guest conductor at the German State Opera in East Berlin, and from 1972 onwards with an extensive contract as musical senior director. Rennert worked there with the directors Ruth Berghaus , Erhard Fischer , Harry Kupfer , and Luca Ronconi until the end of the 1970s and conducted at the Unter den Linden State Opera until the mid-1990s. From 1980 to 1985 he was general music director and opera director at the Nationaltheater Mannheim . As a specialist for Richard Strauss , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart or Richard Wagner , he repeatedly received engagements from abroad, including a. from the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the San Francisco Opera , the Dallas Opera ; he conducted a lot in Italy in the 1970s and 1980s, from 1985 as Principal Guest Conductor in Copenhagen, and in the 1990s in Lisbon. In 1991 a fruitful phase of musical work began as a permanent guest conductor at the Semperoper in Dresden, where he last conducted Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute in 2008 .

tomb

He is buried in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder communities in Berlin-Mitte.

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