Dirk Kaftan
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| Born | 1971 (age 45–46) Marburg |
| Education | Hochschule für Musik Detmold |
| Occupation | Conductor |
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| Awards | Karl-Böhm-Interpretationspreis |
Dirk Kaftan (born 1971) is a German opera and concert conductor. After holding the position of Generalmusikdirektor (GMD) in both Augsburg and Graz, he is now the designated GMD of Bonn.
Born 1971 in Marburg, Germany, Kaftan grew up in Wittlich and Canada. At the age of 18 he worked as a repetiteur at the Theater Trier. Kaftan then studied sound engineering (Tonmeister) at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold. He was Erster Kapellmeister at the Graz Opera. From 2009 to 2014, he was Generalmusikdirektor (GMD) in Augsburg; in 2013, he accepted the same position in Graz. His debut as GMD in Graz was in June 2013; a performance of Schönberg's Gurre-Lieder with soloists, the expanded opera chorus, the Wiener Singverein and the Grazer Philharmonisches Orchester. In Graz, he conducted Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, Puccini's La Rondine, Zemlinsky's Der Zwerg, Dallapiccola's Der Gefangene and Bernstein's West Side Story, among others. In concert, he conducted the oratorio Columbus by Heinrich von Herzogenberg.
Kaftan's operatic repertoire has also included Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer, Lohengrin, Tannhäuser and Die Walküre; Verdi's Rigoletto, La Traviata, Aida and Don Carlos; Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin; Arabella by Richard Strauss; and Stravinsky's ballet Le sacre du printemps.
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