Stefan Soltesz - conductor
M° 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, 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.
Plans include: Henze’s The
Bassarids at the Opera in Rome;
Die Zauberflöte (Staatsoper) and Die
Zirkusprinzessin (Komische Oper)
in Berlin; Die Fledermaus
at the Wiener Staatsoper;
Salome
in Warsaw and Luxembourg;
Mefistofele
at the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden;Eugene
Onegin in Koln and
Tristan und Isolde
in Warsaw.
|
Angela Nisi - Soprano
Born in Brindisi, Angela
Nisi made her debut as Micaëla in Carmen in Bassano del Grappa. She then
performed Valtinoni’s Pinocchio in Turin; Lucia di Lammermoor (Lucia)
and Don Giovanni (Donna Anna) in Bassano del Grappa; Oscar in Un ballo
in maschera in Catania; Violetta in La Traviata at the Varna Summer
Festival and in Essen; Giulietta in Verdi’s Un giorno di regno at the
Reate Festival. Ms. Nisi recently sang Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle at
the Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia in Rome with Antonio Pappano; Don
Giovanni (Donna Anna) in Bangkok; Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (Clorinda)
in Rome; Carmen (Micaëla) at the Cortona Mix Festival and in Florence
with the Orchestra della Toscana; Mozart’s Requiem in Benevento; Rota’s Mysterium at
the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari; Fauré’s Requiem and Verdi’s Quattro
Pezzi Sacri in Cagliari. Agela Nisi starred in the world première of Tutino’s Le Braci at the Martina Franca
Festival.
Plans
include: Haydn’s
Die Schöpfung
in Trieste under the baton of
Gianluigi Gelmetti; La Traviata in
Toulon; Don Pasquale in Rennes; a revival of Le Braci at the Opera
di Firenze-Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Florence Valtinoni’s Pinocchio in
Bassano del Grappa.
|
Cristina Melis - Mezzo-soprano
Winner of the International
Lyric Contest “Giacomo Lauri Volpi” and of the International Contest “Giuseppe
Verdi” in Parma, Cristina Melis debuted as Azucena in Il Trovatore in
Parma. In the past seasons she performed in Ravel’sL’Enfant et Sortileges under
Yves Abel in Palermo; Carmen, Traviata, Gounod’sRoméo et Juliette and
in a series of concerts at the Arena in Verona; Cenerentola(title role)
and as Isabella in L’Italiana in Algeri at the Teatro Regio in Turin;
Azucena in Il Trovatore and
Amneris in Aida in Parma; El Amor Brujo in Cagliari; Eugene
Onegin, Petite messe solennelleand Bruckner’s Te Deum in Bologna;
Rossini’s Stabat Mater in Reggio Emilia; Cavalleria Rusticana at
the Opera di Firenze; Luisa Miller in Liège; Verdi’s Requiem under
the baton of Gianluigi Gelmetti in Rome and Taranto.
Particularly interesting her
collaboration with the Opernhaus in Kiel, where in the past seasons she was
acclaimed in such productions as Il Trovatore, Madama Butterfly, Eugene
Onegin, Nabucco and Rienzi. Plans include: Carmen (title role)
and Rheingold (Fricka) at the Opernhaus in Kiel; Scarlatti’s Stabat
Mater at the Festival Anima Mundi in Pisa; Madama Butterfly in
Naples; Carmen (title role)
and Rigoletto (Maddalena) at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna.
|
|
Festival Anima Mundi
Cathedral
Pisa
Giuseppe Verdi Laudi alla Vergine Maria per coro femminile a cappella
Franz Liszt Dante Symphonie
September 17th, 2015
Antonio Vivaldi Sinfonia Al Santo Sepolcro RV 169
Alessandro Scarlatti Salve Regina
Antonio Vivaldi Cur sagittas RV 637
Alessandro Scarlatti Stabat Mater
September 21st, 2015
|