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Wilhelm Keitel in the opera Der fliegende Holländer


Pianist, conductor, impresario Wilhelm Keitel is widely known among European admirers of classical music. Since 1986 he has conducted at the theatres in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, the Czech Republic, Hungary and has organized opera festivals in Europe. In 1989 he was the artistic director of the festival Rossini in Wildbad. Wilhelm Kaitel cooperated with the famous composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein in the traditional summer concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Tanglewood (USA) and worked with the legendary Christoph Eschenbach and Gustav Kuhn. In 2007-2008 he was the artistic director of the Monschau Festival.

Maestro Keitel has long-standing artistic ties with Minsk. In 1994 he founded the Minsk Orchestra ensemble and toured with around it the cities of Austria and Germany for several years. Since 2011 the German conductor has been actively cooperating with the Symphony Orchestra of the Belteleradiocompany. In September of this year the famed orchestra participated in the recording of the new Rammstein’s album, as evidenced by the photos with Rammstein guitarist and geolocation “Minsk, The house of radio” in social networks. And this collaboration happened largely due to Keitel. In the conductor’s artistic biography there are many names of world celebrities with whom he worked at the best venues of the world.

Wilhelm Keitel is a good friend of the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus. He is delighted to work with the troupe of the main theatre of Belarus for fifteen years. Tours of the Belarusian Bolshoi and Wilhelm Kaitel to Germany, Austria and Tunisia had great resonance. During such tours Verdi’s Nabucco, Aida, La Traviata, Bizet’s Carmen, Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Puccini's Turandot and Madama Butterfly, Orff’s Carmina Burana were performed. In the spring of 2017 orchestra musicians and chorus artists of the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus participated in the tour "Movies in Concert". Belarusian musicians under the direction of Maestro Keitel appeared on the largest venues of Helsinki, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, Leipzig, Vienna, Frankfurt, Zurich.  

 

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