Mag.art. Raphael Schluesselberg

Born in Graz, Raphael Schluesselberg studied orchestral and choral conducting at the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts with Mark Stringer and Erwin Ortner.

In addition to his work as a guest conductor at the Bavarian State Opera, the Opéra national Montpellier, the National Opera Skopje, the University of Illinois, and with orchestras such as the RSO Vienna, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, he was head of the youth opera program at the Theater an der Wien, where he also served as musical assistant, repetiteur and vocal coach for numerous productions. He regularly conducted children's and youth operas there, as well as several productions at the Vienna Chamber Opera.

In 2011, together with Götz Friedrich Award winner Anna Bernreitner, he founded the festival Oper Rund Um in the region of lower austria and on the streets of Vienna, where the idea of opera performances in unusual places with young singers and musicians was realized. There were a series of performances of Strauss' "Die Fledermaus" in public swimming pools in Vienna or a production of Mozarts "The Abduction from the Seraglio" in the old Bene factory in Waidhofen/Ybbs. The latter was awarded in the Austrian Opera Awards.

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