Death of a Belgian conductor, 73

Death of a Belgian conductor, 73

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norman lebrecht

June 29, 2017

Opera Nostalgia reports the death of  Silveer Van den Broeck, music director of Flanders Opera and first conductor at the Mannheim National Theatre in the 1970s and 1980s.

Among many fine singers he worked with were Sylvia Sass, Cristina Deutekom, Marilyn Horne and José Van Dam.

He made a number of recordings, mostly of music by Belgian composers.

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