Navarro, Garcia (1941–2001)

Spanish conductor. He studied in Vienna with Swarowsky. He was music director of the Valencia Symphony Orchestra 1970–74, the Portuguese Radio Symphony Orchestra 1976–78, the Lisbon National Theatre 1980–82, and the Stuttgart State Opera from 1987. He has been the guest conductor of the Vienna Staatsoper 1987–91, and has made guest appearances with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Deutsche Oper, Berlin. He was artistic director of the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra between 1991 and 1993. For his London debut, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 1979, he conducted La Bohème; he also conducted Carmen in Paris in 1982, and Cavalleria rusticana, I pagliacci, and Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York (1986–87). He has conducted Falstaff and Andrea Chénier in Vienna.