Juliane Banse; Michaela Selinger; Torsten Kerl; Oliver Ringelhahn; Markus Eiche; Kay Stiefermann; Jan-Hendrik Rootering; Prague Philharmonic Choir; Lukas Vasilek (director); Munchner Rundfunkorchester; Stefan Soltesz - Paul Hindemith: Cardillac, Op. 39 (first version 1926)

BR-KLASSIK presents the live recording of a concert performance of Hindemith's opera Cardillac from the Prinzregententheater in Munich on October 13, 2013, in memory of the great conductor Stefan SoltEsz. SoltEsz died unexpectedly on July 22, 2022 - exactly one year ago - after collapsing while conducting Richard Strauss' Die schweigsame Frau at the Munich National Theatre. The Hungarian-born Austrian conductor was General Music Director of the Essen Philharmonic and Artistic Director of the Essen Aalto Music Theatre from 1997 to 2013. Both institutions were decisively shaped by him and received several awards during his era. He was a welcome guest conductor with the orchestras in Munich. In addition to the standard works from Mozart to Strauss, an important focus of his opera repertoire was classical modernism.