Wolfgang Vacano

Wolfgang Vacano (born December 23, 1906 in Cologne ; † January 3, 1985 ) was a German-American conductor and music teacher.

Vacano grew up in Berlin. He had been taking violin and piano lessons since childhood and studied from 1922 to 1928 with a diploma as orchestra conductor at the Hochschule für Musik Berlin . In the same year he became a conductor at the municipal opera house in Osnabrück, followed by conducting at the opera houses in Münster and Biel-Solothurn. In 1939 he went to South America and worked as a conductor at the opera houses of Santiago, Montevideo, La Plata and finally at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.

From 1951 until his retirement in 1977 Vacano was a professor at Indiana University Bloomington , where he taught conducting and gave opera workshops. He has also directed numerous orchestral and opera performances. From 1963 he was director of the Indianapolis Philharmonic Orchestra , he also directed the National Orchestra of Nicaragua in Managua for as long as his health permitted and was musical director of the Peoria Civic Opera until his death . His interpretations of Richard Wagner's Parsifal and the Mastersingers of Nuremberg as well as Beethoven's Ninth Symphony were considered exemplary . He wrote a complete new translation of the libretto for a performance of Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande .

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SURNAME	Vacano, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-American conductor and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	December 23, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne
DATE OF DEATH	3rd January 1985