István Kertész (conductor) "Fidelio" and "La bohème". In March 1960, Kertész was invited to become General Music Director of the Augsburg Opera—a post especially created for him. There he conducted performances of Mozart's "The Magic Flute", "The Abduction from the Seraglio", "Così fan tutte", and "The Marriage of Figaro", earning himself a reputation as one of the finest interpreters of Mozart's work. With exhilarating performances of Verdi's "Rigoletto", "Don Carlos", "Otello" and "Falstaff", and Richard Strauss's "Salome", "Arabella", and "Der Rosenkavalier", Kertész also proved himself a master of the finest of Italian Romantic operas. Invited to the Salzburg Festival, he conducted "The Abduction
Marta Belen locations around the United States, Brazil, Portugal, and Spain. She sang for the Tucson Opera (now the Arizona Opera) and the San Francisco Opera. She sang the principal soprano role for "La Traviata", "Madame Butterfly", and "La Boheme", as well as performing in "La Sonnambula", "Daughter of the Regiment" (La fille du régiment), "The Magic Flute", and "The Abduction from the Seraglio". In the late 1970s she recorded Rachmaninoff's art songs with Paula Fan accompanying. Marta married Roger Irwin in 1962. They later divorced in 1976. She married David Hutchinson in 1983. In 1966 she began studying Buddhism, and lived