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+'''Oliver von Dohnányi''' (born  March 2, 1955) is a [[Slovaks|Slovak]] [[conducting|conductor]]. He is Intendant/Artistic Director of the Opera of the [[Slovak National Theatre]] in Bratislava, Intendant/Artistic Director of the Opera of the [[Moravian-Silesian National Theatre]] in [[Ostrava]] and principal guest conductor of the [[Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra]], [[Bratislava]] and [[Slovak Sinfonietta Orchestra]].<ref name = "SNT">[[Slovak National Theatre]]. [http://www.snd.sk/?detail-6&meno=dohnanyi-oliver Oliver Dohnányi]</ref>
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-'''Oliver von Dohnányi''' (born  March 2, 1955) is a [[Slovaks|Slovak]] [[conducting|conductor]]. He is Intendant/Artistic Director of the Opera of the [[Slovak National Theatre (Bratislava)|Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava]], Intendant/Artistic Director of the Opera of the [[Moravian-Silesian National Theatre]], [[Ostrava]] and principal guest conductor of the [[Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra]], [[Bratislava]] and [[Slovak Sinfonietta Orchestra]].
+Dohnányi was born in [[Trenčín]], [[Czechoslovakia]], (now in [[Slovakia]]) and studied [[violin]], [[Musical composition|composition]] and conducting at the [[Prague Academy for Music]] under [[Václav Neumann]] and at the [[University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna]] under [[Otmar Suitner]]. He made his conducting début, with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, in 1979.<ref name = "SNT"/>
-==Biography==
+==References==
-Dohnányi was born in [[Trenčín]], [[Czechoslovakia]], (now in [[Slovakia]]), into a musical family. He studied [[violin]], [[Musical composition|composition]] and conducting at the [[Prague Academy for Music]] under Professor [[Václav Neumann]] and [[Alois Klíma]], and at the [[University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna]] under Professor [[Otmar Suitner]], taking masterclasses with famous conductors [[Franco Ferrara]], [[Arvid Janssons]] and [[Igor Markevich]].
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+==External links==
-He made his début, with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, in 1979 and continued to conduct this orchestra regularly until 1986, which included many recordings not only for Slovak National Radio, but also for the [[Naxos Records]] Marco Polo [[imprint (trade name)|imprint]], [[Supraphon]], [[Panton (record label)|Panton]], [[Verga (record label)|Verga]] and [[Opus One Records|Opus]] labels.  From 1978 he worked extensively with the chamber ensemble Canticorum Iubilo, with which he toured Spain, Belgium, Sweden and the USSR.
-During 1986&ndash;1991, he was principal conductor of the [[Slovak National Opera]], where he enlarged the Opera's repertoire with the scenic works of [[Borodin]], [[Puccini]], [[Vincenzo Bellini|Bellini]], [[Rossini]], [[Smetana]] and [[Verdi]], as well as conducting the company in an award-winning production of Faust at the [[Edinburgh Festival]] (1990). He performed with the Slovak National Theatre Opera ensemble in Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Hungary, Russia and China.
-Other appearances abroad have included visits to the [[Salzburg Festival]], the ENO (where he has conducted ''Falstaff'' and ''Mefistofele''), Opera North in Leeds (''Carmen'', ''The Bartered Bride'', ''La Gioconda'', ''Hamlet''), the Teatro S Carlo in Naples and opera houses in [[Basle]], [[Düsseldorf]], Vienna, [[Zürich]] and [[Wexford]]. He has also appeared with the English Chamber Orchestra and the Yomiuri Nippon SO in Japan. His reputation is based above all on music of the late 19th and 20th centuries, and his recordings include music by [[Liszt]] and [[Rubinstein]], Odysseus by Michael Kocáb and an acclaimed performance of [[Smetana]]'s ''[[Libuše]]''.
-He has won distinctions in a number of competitions including the "[[Resphigi Competition]]" in [[Siena]], the "[[Talich Competition of the Prague Spring]]" and the same award from Hungarian television in 1985 and the special prize at the 1989 Salzburg Festival for the television recording of [[Juraj Filas]]'s opera ''Memento'' with the [[Prague Symphony Orchestra]].
-During 1993&ndash;1996, Oliver von Dohnányi became the principal conductor of the Opera of the National Theatre in Prague. His production enriched the Theatre's repertoire with the scenic works of Smetana, Gounod, Puccini, Verdi, [[Prokofiev]], and [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]]. He toured Japan in 1995 and 1997 with the extraordinarily successful production of Mozart's ''[[Don Giovanni]]'' and ''[[Le nozze di Figaro]]''. Since 1997 he has regularly worked with the [[English National Opera]] in London, where he conducted with much success, operas by Verdi (''[[Falstaff (opera)|Falstaff]]'') and [[Boito]] (''[[Mefistofele]]'').
-Since 2000, Oliver von Dohnányi has co-operated intensively with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. He is a regular guest conductor of the Opera Leeds, with which he produced operas by Bizet, Ponchielli, Thomas, Smetana (the "Best Production" of 1998). He has also been invited to opera houses in Basel, Zürich, Vienna, Osaka, Kassel, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Oviedo, Naples, Wexford, Copenhagen, London, Prague and Brno.
-Oliver von Dohnányi has conducted premiere performances of works by several Czech and Slovak composers (e.g. Petr Eben, Juraj Filas) and his recording of the opera ''Memento mori'' by Juraj Filas with the FOK Symphony Orchestra in Prague became a prize holder at the important television-festival in Salzburg. In May 2002, he conducted and recorded the premiere of three of Marian Budos works.
-His production of [[Gounod]]'s ''[[Faust (opera)|Faust]]'' was famous not only in former [[Czechoslovakia]], but has been highly praised in Hungary, [[Israel]] and Great Britain. This production has been awarded the Critic's Prize in the category of music at the [[Edinburgh Festival]]. At the same time, he also worked with the [[Slovak Philharmonic]] Orchestra in Bratislava. With this ensemble, he gave a number of concerts in Slovakia consequently touring Switzerland and Russia. He also released some recordings with the [[Capella Istropolitana]] ensemble and conducted this chamber orchestra at concerts in Slovakia, Italy, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands.
-Oliver von Dohnányi's operatic engagements include ''[[Carmen]]'', ''[[La Gioconda (opera)|La Gioconda]]'', ''[[Hamlet]]'' and ''[[The Bartered Bride]]'' for [[Opera North]], ''[[Falstaff (opera)|Falstaff]]'' and ''[[Mefistofele]]'' for [[English National Opera]], ''[[Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung]]'' at the [[Wexford Festival]], ''[[Aïda]]'' at the [[Deutsche Oper am Rhein]], [[Düsseldorf]], ''[[Il Barbiere di Siviglia]]'' and ''[[Il Turco in Italia]]'' at the [[State Opera in Prague]]. ''The Bartered Bride'' at the [[Janáček Opera Brno]], the world premiere of ''[[Golem]]'' by [[Hanus Barton]], ''[[Don Giovanni]]'', ''[[The Specter's Bride]]'' in [[Ostrava]], ''[[La bohème]]'' and ''[[La traviata]]'' in [[Osaka]], ''[[The Flying Dutchman (opera)|The Flying Dutchman]]'' in [[Kassel]]. ''[[Mefistofele]]'' in [[Basle]], ''[[Rusalka (opera)|Rusalka]]'' in [[Zürich]], a concert performance of ''[[Ernani]]'' with the [[English Chamber Orchestra]] at [[Barbican Centre|the Barbican]] in London, ''[[Tosca]]'' and ''[[Die Lustige Witwe]]'' for [[Reisopera]], ''[[Falstaff (opera)|Falstaff]]'' and ''[[Jenůfa]]'' for the [[Royal Danish Theatre]], [[Copenhagen]], a concert performance of ''[[Libuše]]'' for the [[Edinburgh International Festival]], ''[[Ariadne Auf Naxos]]'' for the [[Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies|Britten-Pears School]], [[Aldeburgh]], ''[[Macbeth (opera)|Macbeth]]'' and ''[[Roméo et Juliette]]'' for [[Badisches Staatstheater]], [[Karlsruhe]]. He has also conducted a Ballet Evening at the [[Vienna Staatsoper]], ''[[Alexander Nevsky (Prokofiev)|Alexander Nevsky]]'' at the [[Teatro San Carlo Naples]], Prokofiev's ''[[Cinderella (Prokofiev)|Cinderella]]'', ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream (opera)|A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' and the premiere of ''[[In the Blue Garden]]'' for the [[Bayerisches Staatsballett]], [[Munich]], and ''[[Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev)|Romeo and Juliet]]'' (Prokofiev) in [[Zürich]].
-From 2006&ndash;2008, he will be continuing performing in his home country in Slovakia, as well as many other concerts:
-*[[Slovak Sinfonietta]] at the [[Bratislava Music Festival]]
-*concerts in Paris, [[Budapest]], [[Zagreb]], Tokyo, [[Miskolc]]
-*Concerts in [[Naples]] with [[I Solisti di Napoli]] and the Northern Symphonia, Leeds
-*Tours in Germany and France with Slovak Sinfonietta
-*Orchestral concerts with the [[Czech National Symphony Orchestra]] in Prague
-*Orchestral concerts with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava.
-He will also be continuing many operatic performances, with a new production of ''The Bartered Bride'' for [[Baltimore Grand Opera]], a new production of ''[[Jenůfa]]'' at the [[Hungarian National Opera House]] and another one for Opera House in Málaga, at the National Theatre Prague 3 new productions: [[Saint-Saëns]]´s ''[[Samson and Delilah (opera)|Samson and Delilah]]'', [[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev]]´s ''[[Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev)|Romeo and Juliet]]'' and [[Smetana]]´s ''[[Hubička]]'' (''The Kiss''). For [[National Theatre Ostrava]] a revival of ''The Bartered Bride'' and a new production of [[Alfano]]´s ''[[Cyrano de Bergerac (Alfano)|Cyrano de Bergerac]]''. At the National Theatre Prague he is conducting permanently his productions of ''[[Rigoletto]]'', ''[[La traviata]]'', ''[[Rusalka (opera)|Rusalka]]'', ''[[Libuše]]'', ''[[Aida]]'', ''[[Don Pasquale]]'', ''[[La bohème]]'', ''The Bartered Bride'', ''[[Tosca]]'' and also ''[[Macbeth (opera)|Macbeth]]'' and ''[[Faust (opera)|Faust]]'' in Bratislava.
-==References==
 *{{cite web |url=http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Dohnanyi-Oliver.htm |title=Oliver von Dohnányi | publisher=The Bach Cantatas website | year=2005 | accessdate=2007-01-06}}
 *{{cite web |url=http://www.tact4art.com/artists.php?currentspecial=9&currentartist=108 |title=Oliver von Dohnányr |publisher=Tact 4 Art | accessdate=2007-01-06}}
-*{{cite web |url=http://www.profsonstage.com/artists/135275/oliver_von_dohnanyi |title=Oliver von Dohnány Performance Listing |publisher=ProfsOnStage | accessdate=2015-03-05}}
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