Conductor Marcello Viotti, 50, Has Died in Munich

[chinhao (霧裡的愛樂人)]

去年三月在台北指揮維也納愛樂的VIOTTI去世了
去聽他的演出純粹是意外，只因為買票的友人想聽天方夜譚
想不到第一次接觸就變成紀念音樂會了

以下是ANDANTE的報導

Conductor Marcello Viotti, 50, Has Died in Munich
By Geir Moulson

Associated Press - 17 February 2005


BERLIN — Marcello Viotti, who conducted at many of the world's leading opera h
ouses and rose to become the music director of the storied La Fenice Theater in
 Venice, has died after falling into a coma. He was 50.

The conductor died at a Munich clinic Wednesday night [February 16] after spend
ing days in a coma, his agent, Paul Steinhauer said Thursday. He reportedly suf
fered a stroke during rehearsals last week in the German city for Jules Massene
t's Manon.

Marcello Viotti (photo: www.marcello-viotti.com) Viotti — who conducted at New
 York's Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera and Paris's Ope'ra-Bastille
among others — had been music director at La Fenice since 2002. He took charge
 as reconstruction of the theater was nearing completion after a devastating 19
96 fire.

"With Marcello Viotti, we have lost a great conductor, a participant in the art
istic rebirth of La Fenice and a friend who played a decisive role in the cultu
ral life of our city with professionalism, energy and elegance," a statement fr
om the theater said.

Viotti also was chief conductor of the Munich Radio Orchestra, run by broadcast
er Bayerische Rundfunk, from 1998 until the end of last year, when he resigned
in protest to plans for eventually shutting down the ensemble. The broadcaster'
s manager, Thomas Gruber, praised "his ability to transmit to others and share
with them his passion and enthusiasm for life and art."

Viotti gave his last public performance on February 5, when he conducted Vincen
zo Bellini's Norma at the Vienna State Opera.

This spring, he was due to conduct a new production of Richard Wagner's Parsifa
l in Venice. He also was scheduled to conduct La traviata at the Salzburg Festi
val in Austria.

Viotti, who shared his time between Venice and his home in Petite Rosselle, Fra
nce, was born in the Swiss town of Vallorbe on June 29, 1954.

He studied piano, cello and singing at the Lausanne Conservatory, and made his
conducting debut in Geneva with a wind ensemble that he had founded.

Viotti's career was launched when he won first prize at the Gino Marinuzzi cond
ucting competition in Italy in 1982. He rose to prominence as chief conductor o
f the Turin Opera.

He also served as artistic director of the Lucerne Stadttheater in Switzerland
and led orchestras in the German cities of Saarbru"cken, Leipzig and Bremen.

Viotti once described his task as "bringing out the nuances together with the s
inger — finding something for every sentence, every word ... because opera is
made for people, people with their very own, personal possibilities."

"We are only the mailmen," he said of the conductor's job. But "we have great l
etters to deliver."

In Munich, Viotti directed a successful concert cycle named "Paradisi Gloria,"
devoted to 20th-century choral music.

At La Fenice, his productions included Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata, Richard St
rauss's Ariadne auf Naxos and Massenet's Thai"s and Le roi de Lahore. The latte
r was the last opera he directed there.

Marcello Viotti (photo: www.marcello-viotti.com) "Thanks to him we have been ab
le to do extensive projects ... and he has also created concerts of Mozart, Ros
sini, Wagner, Bizet, his versatility having no limits," said Sergio Segalini, t
he Fenice Theater Foundation's artistic director.

Viotti made his debut at the Met in 2000 with Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfl
y. He later returned to the New York opera house for La Bohe`me, La traviata, F
romental Hale'vy's La Juive and, late last year, Giuseppe Verdi's Aida.

He also was scheduled to conduct a revival of Verdi's I vespri siciliani at the
 Met last fall, but his staff said at the time that he canceled his Vespri appe
arances on the advice of his doctors following surgery.

"I am so sad to tell you that it is finished. That's it," Viotti's brother, Sil
vio, wrote in a message posted on the conductor's Web site. "Marcello has finis
hed his journey on this earth. I don't know what to say."

Viotti also is survived by his wife and four children. Bayerische Rundfunk said
 Viotti was to be buried in his Swiss hometown.

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