Albert Rosen

After Anschluss of Austria in 1938 they moved to Bratislava, and after the Slovak version of Nuremberg Laws came to force in September 1941, he escaped discrimination and genocide via the Danube and the sea to Israel (then Mandatory Palestine).

[6] His operatic repertoire included standard works such as Carmen (Bizet), Tosca and Madama Butterfly (Puccini), Il trovatore and Don Carlos (Verdi), Lohengrin (Wagner), Lucrezia Borgia (Donizetti), Otello and L'italiana in Algeri (Rossini), Káťa Kabanová (Janáček), La Wally (Catalani), The Bartered Bride (Smetana), and Salome (Richard Strauss), He also conducted unusual works such as Smetana's The Two Widows[9] and The Kiss, Dvořák's Rusalka, The Devil and Kate and The Jacobin, Janáček's Jenůfa, Prokofiev's The Gambler, Massenet's Don Quichotte, Peter Cornelius's Der Barbier von Bagdad, Britten's The Turn of the Screw, Franco Alfano's La leggenda di Sakùntala, Heinrich Marschner's Hans Heiling and Der Templer und die Jüdin, Engelbert Humperdinck's Königskinder, Mascagni's Il piccolo Marat, Ruggero Leoncavallo's La bohème, Giordano's La cena delle beffe, and less known operas by Martinů and Janáček.

In October 1978, in Dublin and Cork, he conducted the National Symphony Orchestra in only the second and third performances of André Tchaikowsky's 2nd Piano Concerto, Op.

In 1992, the orchestra toured ten cities in Germany, having a major success with Die Fledermaus in Stuttgart.

Albert Rosen made his American debut at San Francisco Opera in 1980, in Janáček's Jenůfa.

[5] He often conducted the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland during the 1990s, in challenging works such as the tone poems and An Alpine Symphony of Richard Strauss.