Austrian conductor Stefan Soltesz has died after collapsing in the middle of a concert in Munich, the German city’s opera house announced on Saturday.
It is with “dismay and deep sadness (that) the Bavarian Opera must announce the death of Stefan Soltesz,” he wrote in a press release.
Soltesz died on Friday night “after collapsing while conducting Richard Strauss’s The Silent Woman at the National Theater” in Munich, the Bavarian Opera added. Details about his cause of death were not immediately available.
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Bavarian Opera General Director Serge Dorny said in a tweet “deeply saddened” by the death of the 73-year-old director. “We’re losing a talented director,” he said. “I am losing a good friend. My thoughts are with his wife Michaela of his.”
The Hungarian-born Austrian maestro held the baton at opera houses in Vienna, Graz, Hamburg and Berlin during his long career. He was musical director of the Brunswick theater in central Germany from 1988 to 1993 and director of the Flemish Opera in Antwerp and Ghent from 1992 to 1997. He made his stage debut at the Bavarian Opera in 1995.
Source: BFM TV
