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Marius Burkert is one of the mostversatile Austrian conductors of his generation. He studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in his hometown of Vienna. Engagements at the Tyrolean Landestheater, the Graz Opera and the Hanover State Opera were followed by conducting appointments at the Vienna Chamber Opera, the Karlsruhe State Theatre, the Klagenfurt City Theatre, the Vienna Volksoper, the Teatro Communale in Bolzano and in Taiwan. As a concert conductor, He has led,among others, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich, the Latvian National Orchestra Riga, the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana Palermo and the Orchestra of the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania. Since 2004, Marius Burkert has been Chief Conductor of the Lehár Festival Bad Ischl and since 2007, 1st Conductor of the Graz Opera.

He has directed over 30premieres and countless repertory performances at both venues,

i.a. Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Zaïde, La Bohème, Expectation, DukeBluebeard's Castle, The Bartered Bride, Madame Butterfly, Lucia di Lammermoor, Fidelio, Verdi Requiem, The Freeshooter, The Love for Three Oranges, Rusalka, Faust, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel, Carmen, Roméo et Juliette, Manon, The Swallow, Tosca, Turandot, Lohengrin, The Distant Sound, Salome, Martha, Ariadne and Bluebeard, King's Children Swan Lake, Giselle
Gypsy Baron,Countess Mariza, The Merry Widow, Die Fledermaus, A Waltz Dream, The Beggar Student, Gasparone, Viennese Blood, The Land of Smiles, The White Horse Inn, Paganini, Gypsy Love, The Csárdás Princess, The Merry Farmer, Where the Lark sings, The Empress, The Hungarian Wedding, The Rose of Stambul, The Mock Marriage, The Bird Seller, The Opera Ball, Bocaccio, The Circus Princess, The Flower of Hawaii, Season in Salzburg, The Polish Wedding, A Night in Venice, Parisian Life
My Fair Lady, WestSide Story, Les Misérables, Singing in the Rain, The Sound of Music, Gigi, Funny Girl, Guys and Dolls, Fiddler on the Roof.

Some operettararities have been released on CD for the first time by cpo, Gasparone, Where the Lark sings, Die Kaiserin, The Hungarian Wedding, The Opera Ball, The Mock Marriage, Kaiserin Josephine, A Night in Venice in the arrangement by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Lehár's Clo Clo.

In the summerof 2021, Marius Burkert will conduct the premiere of The Tsarevich in Bad Ischl, as well as two operettagala concerts, including one with Daniella Fally, and will also work at Graz Opera in the coming season

 

Study

October 1993 - June 1999 Master's degreein Conducting

Universityof Music and Performing Arts Vienna

 

Universityactivity

2002 - 2011 Lecturer "Coaching”

Institute2 - Conducting

University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

since 2011 Senior Lecturer "Opera Coaching”

Institute2 - Conducting

University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

Marius Burkert