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Vjekoslav Sutej /> <p> <strong>Vjekoslav Sutej</strong><br> <strong>Conductor</strong> </p> <p> Maestro Sutej has served as music director and principal conductor of Houston Grand Opera since 1993, where he has conducted many productions including Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Verdi's Attila, Rigoletto, and La traviata, Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, Bizet's Carmen, Puccini's Bohème, Giordano's Andrea Chénier, R. Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, and the world premiere of Florencia in October 1996. He was music director of the Teatro la Fenice in Venice from 1990-93 and has served as music director of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla. He has conducted Verdi's Trovatore and Don Carlo and Puccini's Bohème and Tosca at the Vienna State Opera.. In this country he has conducted Bizet's Carmen with San Francisco Opera and Puccini's Bohème with Washington and Tulsa Operas. Sutej, a native of Zagreb, Croatia, made his Seattle Opera debut conducting Florencia en el Amazonas in 1998. </p> </div> </div> <div id=