Péter Halász

Péter Halász studied piano and composition in his home town of Budapest and trained as a conductor in the class of Prof. Leopold Hager at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. In Lucerne he attended master classes with Bernard Haitink and assisted Ádám Fischer in several opera productions. His first engagements took him to the International Opera Studio at Zurich Opera as a répétiteur and from 2003 to 2011 to the Staatstheater Mainz as répétiteur and later Kapellmeister. For the 2011/12 season, he moved to the Aachen Theatre as Deputy General Music Director. As General Music Director of the Hungarian State Opera Budapest from 2013 to 2016, Péter Halász conducted numerous opera premieres, including the Hungarian premieres of R. Strauss' "Die Frau ohne Schatten" and Thomas Adès' "The Tempest" as well as Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen", among others. He has also conducted gala concerts with singers such as Plácido Domingo, Angela Gheorghiu, Vesselina Kasarova and Ferruccio Furlanetto. In 2017 Péter Halász was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary for his musical work. Guest engagements have taken him to opera houses such as the Hamburg State Opera, the State Theatres in Karlsruhe and Kassel, the Saarland State Theatre and the Bühnen Bern. He is also a regular guest at the Hungarian State Opera and the Latvian National Opera in Riga.
Since the 2021/22 season, Péter Halász has been engaged as Kapellmeister and conductor at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. Here he has so far conducted Mozart's "The Magic Flute", Humperdinck's "Hansel and Gretel", Bizet's "Carmen", Cilea's "Adriana Lecouvreur", Tchaikovsky's "The Maid of Orleans", Donizetti's "L'elisir d'amore" and J. Strauss' (son) "Die Fledermaus", among others. In the 2023/24 season he will conduct "La traviata" (Verdi), "Hansel and Gretel", "The Maid of Orleans", "Madama Butterfly" and "The Magic Flute" as well as the concert "Christmas with Friends" here.

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