Hans Wallat (18 October 1929 – 11 December 2014) was a German conductor, GMD in Bremen, at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, Theater Dortmund and Deutsche Oper am Rhein.
In 1968, he stepped in for Karl Böhm to conduct performances of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Der fliegende Holländer at the Bayreuth Festival.
His debut at the Metropolitan Opera was on 7 October 1971 Beethoven's Fidelio, with Ingrid Bjoner, James McCracken, William Dooley, Giorgio Tozzi and Judith Blegen in leading roles.
[5] He chose a contemporary opera, Wolfgang Fortner's Bluthochzeit, staged by Kurt Horres, for his debut at the Opernhaus Düsseldorf on 12 October 1986.
The performance was conducted by Ralf Weikert, with Gabriele Schnaut as Brünnhilde, Stig Andersen as Siegfried, and Waltraud Meier as Waltraute.