“The Bavarian State Opera announces with horror and great sadness that Stefan Soltész has died,” representatives of the concert hall where the tragedy occurred said on their Twitter profile. Further details are not known.
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Soltész was born in Hungary on January 6, 1949. He took piano lessons from the age of four. In 1956 he came to Vienna, where at the age of ten he became a member of the Vienna Boys’ Choir and continued his career there.
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From 1983 to 1985 he was conductor at the State Opera in Hamburg and from 1985 to 1997 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. From 1988 to 1993 he worked at the Staatstheater Braunschweig in Germany and from 1992 to 1997 as chief conductor in Antwerp and Ghent. He was also a regular guest conductor in Frankfurt, Rome, Budapest, Warsaw, Geneva and other places.
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