Born in Nyiregyhaza in 1949, died in Munich in 2022; the Hungarian-Austrian conductor Stefan Soltész came to Vienna as a child and studied conducting with Hans Swarowsky as well as composition and piano at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst there. In 1971 he began as Kapellmeister at the Theater an der Wien; from 1973 to 1983 he was repetiteur and conductor at the Wiener Staatsoper and from 1979 guest conductor at the Grazer Opernhaus. At the Salzburger Festspiele in 1978, 1979 and 1983 he worked as musical assistant to Karl Böhm, Christoph von Dohnanyi and Herbert von Karajan. He was permanent conductor at the Hamburgische Staatsoper (1983–1985) and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (1985–1997), general music director at the Staatstheater Braunschweig (1988–1993) and principal conductor at the Flemish Opera Antwerp/Ghent (1992–1997). From 1997 to 2013 he was general music director of the Essener Philharmoniker and Intendant of the Aalto-Theater. In 2010 Cybele Records released Appassionatamente plus Lulu-Suite with the Essener Philharmoniker under his direction.
Stefan Soltész
Conductor
