Eduardo Strausser

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“…a real force of nature. His conducting is imbued with charisma, stage presence, and good chemistry with the orchestra …”
(Daily Revolution)

“…the scene enables the music to fly, we can hear how this wonderful score is so inspiring and playful. Eduardo Strausser conducts a lightly accentuated Rossini enriched with generous pianissimi.” (Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Opernwelt, February 2020)

Brazilian conductor, Eduardo Strausser has gained a reputation for his charismatic stage presence and powerful style on the podium. Successes of the 2019/20 season included concerts and four productions for Staatstheater Hannover including Tosca, Die Zauberflote, Hänsel und Gretel and Il Barbiere di Siviglia.

Autumn/winter of the 2020/21 season includes three important UK debuts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Hallé Orchestra, as well as a return to the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra following a successful debut in 2019. Strausser will also return to conduct the Simon Bolivar Orchestra in Venezuela and Oulu Symphony. He makes his delayed US debut with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in January 2021.

He will join Collegium Musicum Basel in the spring for a programme by Viennese classical heavyweights Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert and the Het Gelders Orkest in collaboration with the Nederlandse Reisopera for open air concerts. Previous symphonic highlights have included Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Deutsche Sinfonie Orchester Berlin, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tampere Philharmonic and Oslo Philharmonic as well as the Staatstheater Darmstadt and Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne.

Eduardo Strausser QSO03 (c) Peter Wallis — Eduardo Strausser

Previously Resident Conductor for Teatro Sao Paolo from 2014 – 2016, Eduardo has conducted several operas including Elektra and Carlos Gomes´ Fosca, as well as performances of The Nutcracker with the Balé da Cidade de São Paulo, and a Stefano Poda production of Mahler Symphony No.1.

Eduardo has worked with a number of top soloists, including Isabelle Faust, Richard Galliano, Steven Osborne, Barnabas Kelemen and Sergei Krylov among others. A multi-linguist, Eduardo can speak eight languages fluently including; German, Italian, French, Spanish and Hebrew.

Eduardo Strausser - Brahms: Symphony No.4

Eduardo Strausser - Strauss: Elektra © Teatro Municipal de São Paulo

“But the nicest compliment that needs to be made to the production: the scene enables the music to fly, we can hear how this wonderful score is so inspiring and playful. Eduardo Strausser conducts a lightly accentuated Rossini enriched with generous pianissimi. On the hammer piano, Francesco Greco lets the precisely worked recitatives sparkle with his improvisational free spirit. Great!”

(OpernWelt, February 2020)

“Everything is subject to the smooth sovereignty of the musical direction of Eduardo Strausser: he emphasizes all the details with the Staatsochester, so that brilliant accuracy goes hand in hand with an exhilarating zest for life. It didn’t take a minute for the audience to stand.”

(Neue Musikzeitung, January 2020)

“Strausser had the moment of his life, the best Jupiter Sinfonie in a long time!” ****

(Clemens Goldberg, Kultureradio, November 2017)

“Eduardo Strausser, a revelation of the season.”

(Folha de S. Paulo, December 2016)

“Maestro Strausser is unquestionably one of the new faces in the music world, and part of its exciting future”

(Vecernji list, Zagreb, June 2017)

“Eduardo Strausser holds a light direction, he’s sensible in choosing the timing and dynamics, attentive to the contrast of colors, very expressive. But, most importantly, the direction has a fast paced narrative rhythm and is pervaded by theatricality beauty, able to return to listening all the soft delicacy of Puccini’s score, without never incurring in languorousness.”

(Teatro.it, February 2017)

“The conductor Eduardo Strausser strikes, and the first three chords, solemn, threatening, sound different. Livelier, faster, or more intense. Immediately, everything … electrifies, pardon the pun. (…) Strausser conducts with precision, spirit, energy. The Orquestra Sinfônica Municipal responds magnificently.”

(concerto.com, October 2016)

“A superb Strausser at Teatro la Fenice in Venice” — “The perfection of the Orchestra Filarmonica della Fenice shone in all its grace thanks to young conductor Eduardo Strausser … a real force of nature. His conducting is imbued with charisma, stage presence, and good chemistry with the orchestra …”

(Daily Revolution, March 2016)

“On the podium, the young Brazilian conductor Eduardo Strausser [conducting the Orchestra Filarmonica della Fenice] proves himself a sensitive musician … Strausser has a beautiful gesture that translates into a very organic performance…”

(Operaclick, March 2016)

“Young Eduardo Strausser, the theater’s resident conductor drew out playing that displayed the full spectrum of the Wagnerian instrumental palette, with an expressionist zest spurred on by an all-pervading sense of angst.”

(Opera Magazine, January 2016)

“Everything changed on the second evening [this time under conductor Eduardo Strausser]. The orchestra seemed more confident, and Eduardo Strausser, lyrical and narrative, adjusting the intensity so as to bring out the voices, immediately captured the audience’s attention.”

(Revista Concerto, October 2015)

”Eduardo Strausser brings youthful fire to the work (G. Verdi’s Otello) alongside vigilant attention to accuracy.”

(Opera Magazine, July 2015)

”… the conductor expresses profound and passionate perception [of the opera Eugene Onegin], presenting the inner turmoil of the protagonists and the passions at stake.”

(Ópera Actual Magazine, July 2015)