Reinhard Seehafer

Reinhard Seehafer (born September 6, 1958) is a German conductor, pianist, composer of contemporary classical music and the founder and artistic director of the Festival Altmark Festspiele in Saxony Anhalt.

From 1976 to 1982 Reinhard Seehafer studied with Rolf Reuter and Kurt Masur, and subsequently with Otmar Suitner and Leonard Bernstein.

In 1982 he created a sensation with Giacomo Puccini's Madame Butterfly at the Komische Oper Berlin, and was immediately engaged there.

In addition to chamber music and opera, large symphonic works hold a central position in its activities as a composer.

In 2007, Reinhard Seehafer created a newly reconstructed version of Germany's first opera, "Dafne" which was lost during the Thirty Years' War, on the basis of the original libretto by Martin Opitz to music by Heinrich Schütz.