Klaus Weise - Performer

Klaus Weise (1936-2022) was a German conductor. Born Klaus Fritz Weise in Kolpin, Pomerania (now Poland), he studied in Leipzig, Dresden and Berlin. He began his career at the theatre in Trier, then worked as Kapellmeister in Kiel and Essen, where he also taught conducting and led the orchestra class at the Folkwang Hochschule, and served as chief conductor of the Stadttheater Bern. He became Generalmusikdirektor in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1978 and at the Theater Kiel in 1981, before holding the same post with the Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra from 1985 to 1990. He was then chief conductor of the Opéra de Nice and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice until 1997, and music director of the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla from 1997 to 2000. Working freelance from 2000, he held permanent guest conductor contracts with the Royal Danish Opera, the Royal Swedish Opera, the Opéra National de Bordeaux and New York City Opera, and conducted regularly in Japan and with the China Philharmonic in Beijing. From 2004 he was Generalmusikdirektor of the Oper Halle and from 2006 chief conductor of the Staatskapelle Halle, resigning in 2007 after a dispute over planned budget cuts. He later conducted in Ankara with the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, as well as in Kiel, Paris, Seoul, Beijing and Guangzhou. He died in Villeneuve-Loubet, France, in September 2022 at the age of 86. Source: Rondo DB


Usual Name	Klaus Weise
Ensembles	Dortmunder Philharmoniker from 1985 to 1990
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