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Born Sinzheim.

German conductor.

Stefan Anton Reck won the first International Toscanini Competition in 1985 and the nternational Marinuzzi Competition in 1987.  He studied with Seiji Ozawa and Leonard Bernstein on a Tanglewood Music Festival  scholarship.

He was Music Director of the San Remo Symphony Orchestra (1990-94);   the Orchestra Regionale del Lazio, Rome (1994-8) and the Teatro Massimo, Palermo (2000-02).  He was also assistant to Claudio Abbado (1997-2000).

His opera engagements include Trieste (Der Ring des Nibelungen, Ariadne auf Naxos);  Ferrara (Falstaff with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe);  Genoa (Salome);  Tokyo (Norma with Edita Gruberová,  Lulu; Die Meistersinger);  Dresden (Aïda, European premiere of Dead Man Walking, Lucia di Lammermoor);  Turin (Le nozze di Figaro, Tristan und Isolde);  Venice (Daphne);  Munich (Lulu, Norma);  Barcelona (Lucrezia Borgia,  Lucia di Lammermoor);  Hamburg (Norma);  Los Angeles (Le nozze di Figaro).