Friedemann Layer

Friedemann Layer ( * 1941 in Vienna) is an Austrian conductor

Career

He studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and Performing Arts, among other things, with Hans Swarovsky. His first engagement as an opera conductor led him to Ulm. Subsequently he was assistant to Herbert von Karajan and Karl Böhm, and at the same time also director of studies at the Salzburg Festival. Layer 1974 was engaged as first conductor at the German Opera on the Rhine in Dusseldorf and 1987-1990 first opera and musical director in Mannheim. From 1994 to 2007 he headed the National Orchestra and the Opera National of Montpellier, which he was internationally known for its Festival de Radio France et Montpellier. With this orchestra he recorded a number of CDs of opera recordings, concerts and symphonies. He was again musical director in Mannheim and becoming the first conductor who took over this task a second time from autumn 2007 to 2009.

As a guest conductor he has worked in opera houses in Paris, Brussels, Geneva and Basel, but also in Berlin and Dresden. His concert and opera repertoire shows no commitment to styles. He has also lesser-known works directed and lifted premieres of contemporary music from the baptism.

Friedemann Layer now lives alternately in Berlin and southern France.

Discography

• Franco Alfano - Risurrezione
• Jacques Offenbach - The Rheinnixen
• Ottorino Respighi - La campana sommersa
• Lidarti - Esther oratorio,
• Ponchielli - Marion Delorme
• Zoltan Kodaly - Hary Janos
• Cilea - L' Arlesiana
• Antoine Mariotte - Salomé

• Conductor
• Person (Vienna)
• Austrian
• Born in 1941
• Man