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Stefan Soltesz - conductor
Stefan Soltesz was born in Hungary and he received his conducting training with
Prof. Hans Swarowsky at the "Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst" in
Vienna. His music studies included composition and concert piano. Mr.
Soltesz began his conducting career in 1971 at the Theater an der Wien in
Vienna. Engagements as coach and conductor of the Vienna State Opera (1973-83)
and as guest conductor of the Opera of Graz (1979-81) followed. During the
Salzburg Music Festivals (1978, 1979, and 1983), he also worked as Musical
Assistant to Karl Böhm, Christoph von Dohnnyi and Herbert von Karajan. Stefan
Soltesz was Permanent Conductor of the Hamburg State Opera
(1983-85) and of the Deutsche Oper Berlin (1985-1997). Following
a 5-year engagement as Music Director of the State Theater of Braunschweig,
Germany (1988-1993), he took on the position of Music Director of the Flanders
Opera of Antwerp/Ghent, Belgium (1992-1997). Since
1997, Stefan Soltesz is General/Artistic Director of the Aalto Music Theater in
Essen, Germany (named "Opera House of the Year," by the 2008 critics' survey of
the magazine, "Opernwelt"), and General Music Director of the Essen Philharmonic
Orchestra ("Orchestra of the Year" 2003 and 2008).
Stefan Soltesz also guest conducts regularly at the Vienna State Opera, as well
as at all major German opera houses, such as Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Stuttgart,
Leipzig, and Dresden. Other guest appearances have taken him to the Paris Opera,
Zurich Opera, Grand Théatre de Genève, Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, Teatro
Bellini Catania, the Opera of Bilbao, Teatro Coln Buenos Aires, to the
Washington and San Francisco Operas, Japan, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
London, as well as to the Festivals in Montpellier, Aix-en-Provence, Savonlinna
(Finland) and Baden-Baden.
Stefan Soltesz
has conducted symphony concerts and radio recordings in, among others, Munich,
Hamburg, Hannover, Dresden, Berlin, Saarbrücken, Vienna, Rome, Catania, Torino,
Milan, Genova, Verona, Trieste, Basel, Bern, Paris, and Budapest.
Plans include: Don Giovanni, Aida, Le Nozze di
Figaroand Arabella
in Hamburg;
Der Rosenkavalier
in Luxembourg;
Tosca
in Vienna;
Lohengrin
in Warsaw;
La Belle Hélène
and
Euryante
in Frankfurt;
Der Rosenkavalier
in Tokyo.
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