镜像与独语——奥地利歌剧指挥大师舒特纳二三事

Mirror with soliloquy:Austrian conductor Otmar Suitner

105分钟，6300秒，3S年的聚散与和解，换来的是泪水自勺抵达。就像在下着雨的古老街头，一对男女在色调幽暗的胶片上用法语互道“aurevoir”（再见），低沉的喉音弥漫着忧伤与回忆……

Otmar Suitner was an Austrian conductor who spent most of his professional career in East Germany.He was born in Innsbruck and died in Berlin.He was Principal Conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden from 1960 to 1964,and then Music Director at the Berlin State Opera from 1964 to 1990.He specialized in conducting works by Mozart,Wagner and Richard Strauss but also led performances of contemporary compositions. Suitner,also honorary conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo,taught from 1977 to 1990 at today's University for Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna.His son Igor produced a documentary during Suitner's later years,entitled The Music of My Father.