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Standing Ovations during the american concert debut with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra ...In the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, home to one of the premier concert halls in the U.S., Friedrich Haider conducted a highly acclaimed New Year’s Concert 2010 for the renowned U.S. orchestra.
Johann Strauss' “Bat” - recording for the WDR Cologne ...The new recording of Johann Strauss’s “The Bat” for the Radio Cologne shall be released on CD in spring 2011 at the "Philartis Vienna" Label.
Berlin Debut ...with performances of Mozarts "Abduction from the Seraglio" in February 2011 Friedrich Haider gave his very successful debut at the "Staatsoper unter den Linden" (in the Schiller Theater). Haider will return to Berlin in May/June 2011.
Successful debut at New York’s Metropolitan Opera with Verdi’s “Rigoletto” “The phenomenal acclaim from both orchestra and audience made Friedrich Haider’s debut at the New York Metropolitan Opera a great personal success. The New York Times ranked his spirited Rigoletto among the most notable debuts of this production.” The conductor also received tremendous praise from the audience on the occasion of the worldwide radio broadcast on December 16, 2006. Music director James Levine to Friedrich Haider, “The orchestra likes you because you are inspiring!”
November/December 2008: Debut at the Amsterdam Opera House “Directed by Johannes Schaaf, a new production of Johann Strauss’s “The Bat” at the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam was staged on November 29, 2008 to the immense delight of the audience. The daily newspaper HET PAROOL wrote: “Conducted by Friedrich Haider, the Netherlands Philharmonic played with tremendous elasticity and graceful ease, truly showcasing the music’s Viennese sensibility.” (Erik Voermans, Het Parool, December 1, 2008)
Ovations at the Dortmund Konzerthaus ...for Friedrich Haider, the Dortmund Philharmonic, and the three concerts they gave of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11 “The Year 1905”. Julia Gass reported in the May 24, 2006 edition of the Ruhr Nachrichten under the title “Barbaric Sounds for Bloody Sunday”: “Friedrich Haider seems to radiate a special kind of magic from the conductor’s stand... The Westfälische Rundschau newspaper wrote: “Nothing but praise for such a display of absolute musical force. Overwhelmed by the power of Dmitri Shostakovich’s 11th Symphony, the audience initially remained silent before bursting with acclaim for the Dortmund Philharmonic and guest conductor Friedrich Haider. Haider presented this stirringly passionate, profound music with utmost tension and intensity while eliciting a wealth of color and plasticity from the Philharmonic Orchestra.”
Contract with OVIEDO FILARMONIA renewed a second time ...Gabino de Lorenzo, mayor of the City of Oviedo, renewed Friedrich Haider’s contract with the OVIEDO FILARMONIA for a second time. Haider will now be serving as principal conductor for another two years, until 2011. De Lorenzo stated that on account of the conductor’s exceptionally successful work, the orchestra had experienced an absolute turnaround in quality and now held an important place in cultural life.
Recording contract with Philartis Vienna ...A five-year contract was signed between the label PHILARTIS VIENNA and the OVIEDO FILARMONIA under Friedrich Haider. Following the release of a live recording of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s one-act “Il segreto di Susanna” (soloists: Judith Howarth and Angel Odena), the Double Concerto by Brahms (with the soloists Tibor Kovac and Franz Bartolomey from the Vienna Philharmonic) together with Dvorak’s Piano Trio Nr. 1 in B flat major (with Haider on piano) was released in the spring of 2009. Wolf-Ferrari’s violin concerto (soloist: Benjamin Schmid) is to be released in the fall of 2010.