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Ioan Holender ... again at UPT

 
 
Ioan Holender ... again at UPT

A special moment during the Politehnica Days 2018

15 November 2018

 

 

 

 

A special moment during the Politehnica Days 2018 was the meeting of students and teachers from UPT with Ioan Holender, the longest-running director of the Vienna State Opera, originaly from Timişoara and... former student of Politehnica, the event being hosted by the Central Library of Politehnica University Timișoara.

During the talks, Ioan Holender pointed out some of the defining episodes of his career, one of which was even linked to Politehnica University Timisoara. Here he was a student of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, then wishing to become an engineer. Fate would decide otherwise. There followed the 1956 events, the student revolt, and the young Holender, who had spoken at the famous meeting at the Polytechnic canteen, was expelled, without being able to re-enroll in any faculty in Romania.

The Austria episode then followed, where he began working from the bottom, technical designer, figurant at the opera and singer, but without great career prospects, until he was suggested to be "too smart" to stay at this stage. He began to become an artistic director, and finally he became director of the Vienna State Opera, a position in which he spent 19 years and which brought his celebrity. From that position he promoted Romania, brought soloists and instrumentalists that he hired in Vienna.

The next period took him on almost all of the world's meridians, especially as a consultant of several cultural institutions, including the famous Metropolitan Opera House in New York and the Tokyo Opera House.

During the discussions with the students, he evoked the personality of some of the caliber professors of the Timisoara Polytechnic, and he was particularly interested in how students of today see the student years, career and leaving the country. The atmosphere was relaxed, and only the highly loaded program made it end the meeting.

 
Ioan Holender la UPT
Ioan Holender la UPT
Ioan Holender la UPT
Ioan Holender la UPT
Ioan Holender la UPT
Ioan Holender la UPT
Ioan Holender la UPT
Ioan Holender la UPT
Ioan Holender la UPT
Ioan Holender la UPT
Ioan Holender la UPT
 
 
 
 
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