Seiji Ozawa |

Seiji Ozawa

Debut 1961 in New York (as Bernstein’s assistant with the New York Philharmonic). He worked with the San Francisco Orchestra (performed with it in the USSR in 1973). Since 1973 he has been Principal Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. At the Salzburg Festival in 1969, he performed “That’s What Everyone Does”. In 1974 he performed at Covent Garden (Eugene Onegin). In 1986 he performed the same opera at La Scala. Repeatedly performed at the Grand Opera (Turandot, Tosca, Fidelio, Elektra, etc.).

Seiji Ozawa participated in the world premiere of Messiaen’s Saint Francis of Assisi (1983, Paris). In 1992 he performed The Queen of Spades and Falstaff at the Vienna Opera.

Ozawa, a student of Herbert von Karajan and one of Japan’s most famous promoters of Western classical music, has led the Toronto, San Francisco, and Boston symphony orchestras before taking up a post at the Vienna Opera in 2002. Ozawa is the creator and inspirer of the largest music festival in Japan, Saito Kinen, and directs the orchestra of the same name.

Among the recordings are the opera Salome (soloists Norman, Morris and others, Philips), Saint Francis of Assisi (soloists Eda-Pierre, Van Dam, Riegel and others, Cybelia).