revived Marschner's Hans Heiling; an opera whose composer had also been conductor at the Hannover opera. Albrecht then conducted some of the more infrequently presented operas, like Janacek's Jenufa, Handel's Jephta and Hercules, Wolf-Ferrari's Sly and Alban Berg's Lulu. He introduced contemporary composers, conducting Aribert Reimann's Troades in 1987, and Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Die Soldaten in 1989. He conducted a production of Schoenberg's Moses und Aron, staged by George Tabori, for both Hannover and Oper Leipzig. He worked together with an ensemble of singers including Isoldé Elchlepp, Renate Behle and Waltraud Meier. Albrecht concluded his tenure in Hannover with the 1992/93 season. Albrecht was guest conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic and Munich Philharmonic, the Bamberg Symphony and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. He made further guest appearances in New York, St. Petersburg, Tokyo and Barcelona. He conducted Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer at the Vienna State Opera in 1985, and returned for other stage works by Wagner. From 1990 to 1995, Albrecht was a regular guest conductor of the Semperoper in Dresden, where his work included conducting the Tabori production of Moses und Aron in 1994. As the 24th successor of Kapellmeister Johann Sebastian Bach, he served as GMD of the Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar from 1996 to 2002. On 1 January 2002, he had a cardiac arrest on stage at New Year's Concert conducting Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Following 2002, he was honorary conductor and returned to composing. Albrecht championed the music of Wilhelm Furtwängler, Hans Pfitzner, and Erwin Schulhoff among others. He taught at the Musikhochschule Hannover and Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar. Personal life Albrecht married twice and became a father five times. The conductor Marc Albrecht is his son from his marriage to Corinne, a ballet dancer who became a physiotherapist. He was later married to pianist Liese Klahn, daughter of . Albrecht became involved in hospice work and was a devout Catholic. In spring 2021, he and his wife moved from Weimar to Southern Germany. He died on 21 December 2021, at the age of 86. Awards 1985 Gustav Mahler Gold Medal of the 1993 Cross of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit 1998 Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 2005 Conductors Award in the opera category from the Australian critic's Green Room Award for a new production of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman at Opera Australia in Sydney and Melbourne