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Michael Halasz (b1938)


"One of the Top Ten Recordings of 2000... A terrific performance at any price." Opera News review of Fidelio conducted on Naxos by Michael Halasz.

Michael Halasz's first engagement as a conductor was at the Munich Gartnerplatztheater where, between 1972 and 1975, he directed all operetta productions.

In 1975, he moved to Frankfurt to work as principal Kapellmeister under Christoph von Dohnanyi and here he conducted the most important works of the operatic repertoire. Many engagements as a guest conductor followed and in 1977 Dohnanyi engaged him at the Staatsoper in Hamburg as principal Kapellmeister.

From 1978 to 1991 Halasz was General Musical Director of the Hagen Opera House and in 1991 he took up the post of Resident Conductor at the Vienna State Opera.

For Naxos, Michael Halasz has recorded works by Tchaikovsky (ballets), Wagner (operatic excerpts), symphonies by Beethoven, Schubert and Mahler, Rossini's overtures and two volumes of Liszt's symphonic poems, the latter described by the Penguin Guide as "one of the most successful collections of Liszt's symphonic poems to have emerged in recent years".

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