Lothar Zagrosek

From about the mid-’80s Lothar Zagrosek began pulling international acclaim for his function in the world of opera, particularly for his advocacy of lesser-known fare. He previously held several articles in small opera homes of Germany and Austria before becoming appointed music movie director in the Paris Opera in 1986, when he produced his first essential worldwide breakthrough. Zagrosek’s set of recordings is certainly see to his dedication in the reason for neglected opera: Walter Braunfels’ Pass away Vögel, Hans Krása’s Verlobung im Träum, Franz Schreker’s Pass away Gezeichneten, Berthold Goldschmidt’s Der gewaltige Hahnrei, Erwin Schulhoff’s Pass away Mondsüchtige, and so many more. These and various other operas made an appearance in Decca’s Entartete Musik series, with which Zagrosek is becoming closely associated over time. He in addition has recognized himself in even more traditional operatic fare, such as for example Wagner (the Band), Mozart (Così enthusiast tutte, Die Zauberflöte, etc.), and Berg (Lulu and Wozzeck), aswell as in both realms of traditional orchestral music and even more intensifying circles — he spent some time working with Boulez’s Outfit InterContemporain. Beside Decca, Zagrosek provides documented for Naxos, CPO, EuroArts, and Arthaus Musik. Lothar Zagrosek was created in the Bavarian town of Otting (Waging am Discover), Germany. As a kid he sang in guys choirs and was ultimately taken in to the Regensburg Guys’ Choir. In his past due teens his curiosity turned toward performing, and from 1962-1967 he researched with a few of the most prominent maestros of your day, including Hans Swarowsky, Herbert von Karajan, Bruno Maderna, and Istvan Kertesz. From 1967 Zagrosek began showing up frequently at opera homes in Salzburg, Kiel, and Darmstadt. In 1982 he started a three-year stint as conductor from the Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra. He also spent 3 years on the helm from the Paris Opera (1986-1988), and became key guest conductor on the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the entire year of his Paris departure. A string of essential content ensued: in 1990 he was appointed general music movie director on the Leipzig Town Opera; then offered in Stuttgart as key conductor from the Wurttemberg Opera from 1997 to 2006; upon his departure from Stuttgart he recognized the session as key conductor from the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, previously referred to as the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. Among Zagrosek’s afterwards recordings will be the 2002 Dvd and blu-ray of Wagner’s Das Rheingold on EuroArts offering the Stuttgart Condition Opera, as well as the Compact disc version from the same performance released on Naxos in 2006.