Sucher, Rosa
Sucher Josef, *23 November 1843 Döbör (Hungary), †4 April 1908 Berlin, Austrian conductor and composer. He studied with S. Sechter in Vienna, where initially he was a singer at the Hofkapelle, from 1870 a tutor, and in 1873 an assistant conductor of the Hofoper and conductor of the Akademischer Gesangverein, then bandmaster of the Komische Oper. In 1876–78, bandmaster of the Stadttheater in Leipzig. In search of singers, he came to Gdańsk in 1876, where he met Rosa Hasselbeck, whom he married in 1877. With her participation, in 1878 in Leipzig, he performed the first full staging of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen. In 1878–88, he was conductor of the opera in Hamburg, where, among others, in 1882, he staged Tristan and Isolde. In 1888–99, he was the principal conductor of the Hofoper in Berlin; in 1889, he presented a series of Wagner’s works there, starting from the opera Rienzi to Twilight of the Gods. Sucher’s work mainly includes vocal works.