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STEFAN ANTON
RECK - conductor
 Stefan
Anton Reck won the 1st International Arturo Toscanini competition for
conducting in 1985, and subsequently the first prize in the International
Gino Marinuzzi competition in conducting. In 1987 and 1990 Reck received a
scholarship from the Tanglewood Music Festival to study with Seiji Ozawa and
Leonard Bernstein.From 1990 to 1994 Reck was music director of the Orchestra
Sinfonica di Sanremo, and from 1994 to 1998 he was music director of the
Orchestra Regionale del Lazio in Rome.
From 2000 to 2002 Stefan Anton Reck was music director of the Teatro Massimo
di Palermo. From 1997 to 2000 he was Claudio Abbado's assistant, beginning
with the Wozzeck production at the Osterfestspiele in Salzburg.For
Pierre Boulez Reck prepared the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester for the Summer
Tours 1997 and 1998 with Strawinsky's Sacre du Printemps, Boulez's Notations
and Bartók's Blaubarts Burg. In 1998 Reck took over the new production
of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste. In 1999 he
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
Jugendorchester Summer Tour 1999 under the direction of Claudio Abbado, Reck
conducted a performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 7 in Havana.
In September 1999 Reck opened the concert season of the Teatro Massimo di
Palermo with Mahler's Symphony No. 6. Also at the Teatro Massimo
Reck conducted Arnold Schönberg's Die Erwartung with Anja Silja and
Francis Poulenc's La voix humaine with Raina Kabaivanska in March 2000
followed by Mahler's Symphony No. 5 in October. 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, Scrjabin and Bartók. In
January 2001 Reck opened the season of the Teatro Massimo di 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 Giuseppe 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 Schönberg 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. 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. The most
important events of the season 2006/07 have been a new production (first
european performance) of the opera Dead Man Walking by Jake
Heggie at the Semperoper Dresden, Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde at
the Teatro Reggio di Torino, 4 concert performances of Bellini’s Norma at the
Hamburgische Staatsoper, as well as numerous symphony concerts with the Royal
Scottish National Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, Paris, the
Orchestre National de Montpellier, the orchestras of the Gran Teatro la Fenice, Venice, of the
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra.
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