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Austrian conductor Stefan Soltész collapses during performance and dies

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NOS Newstoday, 01:19

Austrian conductor Stefan Soltész collapsed during a performance in Munich and died shortly afterwards. He was 73 years old.

Last evening Soltész conducted a performance of the Bavarian State Opera at the National Theater in Munich, The silent woman by Richard Strauss. The opera company reports the death with “dismay and great sadness”. Our thoughts are with his wife Michaela, writes the Bavarian State Opera.

Soltész was born in Hungary but moved to Vienna as a child, where he later studied. He has conducted in many major opera houses, including Rome, Budapest and Moscow.

From 1992 to 1997 he was chief conductor of the Flemish Opera in Antwerp and Ghent. After that he was chief conductor of the Essener Philharmoniker, which was twice voted orchestra of the year by a German trade magazine during Soltész’s period.

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