Former conductor of Flemish Opera, Stefan Soltész, collapses during performance and dies

Austrian conductor Stefan Soltész collapsed and died on Friday evening during a performance at the National Theater in Munich. Not long after the incident, the Bavarian State Opera confirmed the death of the 73-year-old conductor with “disgust and great sadness”. Soltész died while conducting the comic opera ‘Die schweigsame Frau’ by composer Richard Strauss.

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