Caspar Richter
Biography
Caspar Richter (16 September 1944 – 2 February 2023) was a German conductor. He worked from 1969 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin where he conducted world premieres of operas such as Wilhelm Dieter Siebert's Untergang der Titanic and Toshiro Mayuzumi's Kinkakuji. He moved to Vienna in 1982, conducting ballets at the Vienna State Opera, and operas and operettas at the Volksoper. He was co-founder and chief conductor of the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien from 1987 for 23 years, focused on the production of new musicals such as Elisabeth and German premieres of popular musicals such as A Chorus Line.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
99 releases · 22 albums · active 1981–2024
- Performance · 93
- Other credits · 35
Studios: Theater an der Wien · MG-Sound Studios · Studio Dukla · The Music Room, New York, NY
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Michael Kunze
- Karel Gott
- Heinz Rudolf Kunze
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Joe Zawinul
- Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
- Gandalf