Marcello Viotti
Marcello Viotti ( born June 29, 1954 in Vallorbe, Switzerland, † 16 February 2005 in Munich) was an Italian- Swiss conductor.
He led from 1998 to 2004, the Munich Radio Orchestra, which he led to international fame. Since 2002 he has served as music director of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.
Life
In French-speaking Switzerland as the son of Italian blacksmith Valentin Viotti, Marcello Viotti studied voice, piano and cello at the Conservatoire de Lausanne. In Geneva He then founded a wind ensemble, which he has conducted himself. He was influenced early in his career by Wolfgang Sawallisch, he was able to observe as a chorister at conducting engagements.
Viotti worked as a conductor at the Teatro Regio in Turin Opera from 1985 for several years. After that, he was the artistic director of the Municipal Theatre Lucerne, 1989-1993 General Music Director of the Bremen Philharmonic State Orchestra and from 1991 to 1995 chief conductor of the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra, with whom he released a recording of the complete symphonies of Franz Schubert. 1996 to 1999 he worked as one of three main conductors of the MDR Symphony Orchestra in Leipzig.
With the Munich Radio Orchestra he celebrated from the 1999/2000 season with great success of the concert series Paradisi Gloria, with whom he weather brought the audience close to sacred music of the 20th century in collaboration with Cardinal Friedrich. With this series, which had its origin in the belief Viotti, he attracted international attention. He led the orchestra until now liked to call a salon orchestra to high rank. When in 2004 the director of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Thomas Gruber announced the closure of the Radio Orchestra in 2006, Viotti resigned in protest from the line.
1999 and 2000 he Viotti the Masked Ball by Giuseppe Verdi on the floating stage Bregenz. He is a regular guest appearances at the Vienna State Opera, where he conducted a total of 15 different operas, but also in many other opera houses such as in Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Zurich, Brussels, Paris or Milan, and San Francisco and New York, go to the Salzburg Festival and at the Arena di Verona ( Rigoletto ).
He also conducted the Berlin, Munich and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra as well as the major orchestras of Australia and Japan.
A highlight of his career was his appointment as Direttore musicale of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice in January 2002.
In the 2003/2004 season alone he led, inter alia, Jacques Fromental Halévy's new productions of La Juive at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, Verdi's Attila and Georges Bizet's Pearl Fishers in Venice, Charles Gounod's Roméo et Juliette for the Bavarian State Opera in Munich as well as a Far East tour with the Vienna Philharmonic.
Viotti lived with his wife, the violinist was, and four children near Saarbrücken in French Lorraine and in Munich.
2005 wanted Viotti Verdi's La Traviata with Anna Netrebko conduct at the Salzburg Festival. He was most recently on 5 February 2005, the premiere of a concert performance of Norma at the Vienna State Opera with Edita Gruberova. On February 10, he set out for the samples with the Munich Radio Orchestra for the concert performance of Jules Massenet's Manon in Munich after a stroke together. Because of a blood clot, it was said, had Viotti need surgery on the carotid artery. After that, his condition had deteriorated rapidly, on 16 February 2005, he died.
Ioan Holender, director of the Vienna State Opera, lamented the death of Viotti as a "loss for the entire music world."
Viotti was buried on 23 February at his birthplace Vallorbe in Lausanne.