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Stefan Anton Reck, German conductor, born 26 April 1960
Biography
In 1985, whilst completing tertiary studies at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, Stefan Anton Reck won the 1st International Arturo Toscanini Conducting Competition, as well as the International Gino Marinuzzi Conducting Competition in Italy. Reck was awarded a scholarship to study at the Tanglewood Music Centre in 1987 and in 1990, where he worked closely with Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa.
Reck was Music Director of the Orchestra Sinfonica di San Remo from 1990-1994, Chief Conductor of the Orchestra Regionale del Lazio Roma from 1994-1998, and Music Director of the Teatro Massimo di Palermo from 1999-2003.
From 1997 to 2000 he was Claudio Abbado’s assistant, beginning with the Wozzeck production at the Osterfestspiele in Salzburg.
In 1998 Reck took over the new production of Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste.
In 1999 Stefan Anton Reck debuted with Verdi’s Falstaff in Claudio Abbado’s Falstaff production with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in Ferrara. In the course of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra Summer Tour 1999 under the direction of Claudio Abbado, Reck conducted a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 in Havana.
In 2000 Reck conducted the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester in the course of the Internationale Musikfestwochen Luzern and on its annual European Tour with works of Shostakovitch, Mahler, Scriabin and Bartók.
In January 2001 Reck opened the season of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo with a new production of Alban Berg’s Lulu, recorded live by OehmsClassics; by Arte Nova Classics he recorded a programme all Wagner with Albert Dohmen. In the following months Reck debuted very successfully with the Orchestre National de France, Paris, with the orchestras of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and of the Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova. In November 2001 Reck completed the production of Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste with the Götterdämmerung.
For the opening of the season 2002 of the Teatro Massimo Reck conducted Jacques Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann, followed by a spectacular new production of the opera Moses und Aron of Arnold Schoenberg and the concerts in celebration of the fifth anniversary of the reopening of the historic Teatro Massimo titled ”La Memoria dell’Offesa. Dedicato alle vittime dell’Olocausto e di tutte le violenze.” On the programme among others Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis and Arnold Schönberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw, with Harvey Keitel as narrator.
During the season 2002/2003 Reck conducted among others Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc au Bûcher in Palermo, Strauss’s Salome in Genova, Bellini’s Norma with Edita Gruberova in Tokyo, von Weber’s Der Freischütz in Leipzig as well as symphony concerts with the Orchestre National de France, Paris, the Orchestre National de Montpellier, the Orchestra di Santa Cecilia, Rome and the orchestras of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. In September 2003 he debuted at the Semperoper in Dresden with Verdi’s Aida.
In 2004 Reck debuted at the Bayerische Staatsoper München with Alban Berg’s Lulu (3-act-version), at the Los Angeles Opera with a new production of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and at the reopened Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice with a new production of the opera Daphne by Richard Strauss, published as cd and dvd live-recording by Dynamic.
In 2005 Reck was invited to conduct two new productions at the New National Theatre Tokyo, Alban Berg’s Lulu and Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
Followed an intense concert and opera activity, with among others a new production (first european performance) of the opera Dead Man Walking by Jake Heggie at the Semperoper in Dresden, Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde at the Teatro Reggio di Torino, a new production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen at the reopened Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, Debuts at the Hamburgische Staatsoper, the Oper Frankfurt, as well as numerous symphony concerts with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Turin, the Orchestre National de Montpellier, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (Edinburgh Festival), the orchestras of the Gran Teatro la Fenice, Venice, of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra.
Reck has established a world wide reputation as a specialist for the music of Gustav Mahler, as well as the Second Viennese School of Berg, Schoenberg and Webern. As a conductor Reck works intensively to extract the special musical qualities of carefully chosen repertoire, and has built a strong affinity with contemporary Music.
Recordings
- R. Strauss, Daphne, Gran Teatro La Fenice, Dynamic, CD et DVD
- Berg, Lulu, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, OehmsClassics
- Wagner Portrait, Albert Dohmen, Orchestra del Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Arte Nova Classics
- Schostakowitsch, Symphonie n° 1, op. 10 ; Skrjabin, Le Poème de l’Extase, op. 54, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Edition Zeitklang
- Schönberg, Erwartung (Anja Silja); Poulenc, La voix humaine (Raina Kabaivanska), Orchestra del Teatro Massimo di Palermo
- Mahler, Symphonie n° 7, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Preiser Records
- Mahler, Symphonie n° 10, Adagio ; Wagner, Wotans Abschied und Feuerzauber ; Bartók, Der wunderbare Mandarin, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Preiser Records
- Tutino, Riccardo III, Orchestre del Teatro Sociale di Rovigo, Ermitage
Sources
External links
Press
- Opéra international 255, mars 2001, Berg, Lulu
- Die Opernwelt, März 2001, Berg, Lulu
- FAZ Nr. 261, 9. 11. 2001, Lulu CD
- Süddeutsche Zeitung Nr. 245, 24. 10. 2001, Lulu CD
- Stuttgarter Zeitung, 13. 2. 2002, Lulu CD
- FAZ Nr. 114, 18. 5. 2002, Schönberg, Moses und Aron
- Midi libre, 14. 12. 2003, Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique
- Anaclase, 29. 4. 2005, Berg, Concerto de violon, Mahler, Symphonie n° 6
- Die Opernwelt, November 2005, Wagner, Meistersinger von Nürnberg
- Münchner Merkur, 1. 10. 2005, Wagner, Meistersinger von Nürnberg
- The Scotsman, 16. 8. 2006, Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde
- The Herald, 16. 8. 2006, Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde
- Seen and heard international opera reviews, 18. 10. 2008, Strauss, Ariadne auf Naxos
- Wanderer’s Blog, 10/2009, Beethoven, Egmont, Eroica
- L’Hérault du jour, 10. 11. 2009, Mahler, Symphonie n° 6
- Midi libre, 10. 11. 2009, Mahler, Symphonie n° 6
