American conductor Richard Woitach has died at the age of 84 after suffering a long illness. Born in 1936, Woitach studied at the Eastman School of Music in 1959 and later joined the Metropolitan Opera as a staff conductor. At the Metropolitan Opera, he led productions of “I Vespri Sicilianni,” with Cristina Deutekom, Cornell MacNeil, and Paul Plishka; “Madama Butterfly,” {…}