Leopold Hager

Leopold Hager is becoming most widely known for his performances and recordings of the first Mozart operas and additional seldom-performed operas by Haydn and Gluck. Hager can be a podium veteran in the solely instrumental world, but once again with strong contacts towards the music of Mozart which of additional eighteenth hundred years composers. However his repertory has a selection of composers, both early and contemporary, consuming the disparate loves of Handel, Smetana, Schnittke, and Helmut Eder. Hager offers offered as music movie director or primary conductor of many prominent orchestras, both in the realms of opera and concert music. He offers recorded for a number of brands, including Philips and Vox. Hager was created on Oct 6, 1935, in Salzburg, Austria. He exhibited uncommon skill in his youngsters, enrolling in the Salzburg Mozarteum in 1949, where he analyzed keyboard, performing, and structure. His most significant teachers there have been Bernhard Paumgartner, Gerhard Wimberger, Cesar Bresgen, and Egon Kornauth. Hager concluded research in 1957 and recognized the session of helper conductor at the town Movie theater in Mainz that same season. Hager still left Mainz in 1962, as well as for another seven years kept brief but essential conducting content: from 1962-1964 he executed on the Linz Landestheater, in the 1964-1965 period he was conductor on the Cologne Opera, and from 1965-1969 he proved helpful as the overall music movie director in Freiburg. It had been in the next 10 years that Hager produced his biggest breakthroughs: as key conductor of Salzburg’s Mozarteum Orchestra and Landestheater (1969-1981), he not merely produced significant inroads in Austria as well as the Germanic sphere, but set up a major worldwide profession. He debuted on the Met in 1976 with Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, at Teatro Digestive tract in 1977 with Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, with Covent Backyard in 1978 with Le nozze. In the past due ’70s Hager started recording the first Mozart operas for Philips with a number of the finest opera performers of that time period, including Peter Schreier, Werner Krenn, Edith Mathis, Lucia Popp, Agnes Baltsa, and many more. The complete model (five operas) was reissued by Philips in 2006. In 1981 Hager recognized the positioning of key conductor from the Luxembourg Radio Symphony Orchestra. He continued to be active performing for the rest from the twentieth and in to the twenty-first generations. Hager retired from teaching performing on the Vienna College or university of Music and Performing Arts in 2004.