“Unlike many theaters and opera houses in Europe, however, the “Massimo” cannot be kept quiet. “Il crepuscolo dei sogni” – “Traumdämmerung” is what German opera director Johannes Erath and Massimo’s music director Omer Meir Wellber called their concert, which they simply added to their program. In an interview, Erath calls it a symphonic condensation of …
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Teatro Massimo, in collaboration with the University of Palermo, commemorates International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January with a special program featuring the Teatro Massimo Orchestra, Choir and Soloists, as well as Eli Danker and works by Arnold Schoenberg and Sergei Prokofiev, as well as the Jewish prayer Eli Ata veodeka. This will be followed …
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On January 25 at 6:30 p.m., Omer Meir Wellber will present the Italian translation of his novel “Die vier Ohnmachten des Chaim Birkner” (The Four Faints of Chaim Birkner) in a live conversation on YouTube. “Storia vera e non vera di Chaim Birkner” will be published on January 21 by the Italian publisher Sellerio Editore …
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On 26 January, Teatro Massimo opens the 2021 season with a special production with Omer Meir Wellber and Johannes Erath. With “Il crepuscolo dei sogni,” Wellber and Erath trace a dreamlike path between light and shadow, from Strauss’s “Traum durch die Dämmerung” to Schubert’s “Winterreise,” from the shadows of “Verleumdung” in Rossini’s The Barber of …
In the coming last weeks of December, Omer Meir Wellber will conduct special performances at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo via livestream on Teatro Massimo Web TV: 13 December, 8 pmOrchestra del Teatro MassimoSadikova: MarionettesHaydn: Ouverture of „Philemon und Baucis“Schumann: Symphony No. 4 25 December, 8 pmOrchestra del Teatro MassimoProkofieff: Ouverture on Hebrew ThemesSchnittke: Piano …
As of the start of Lotte de Beer’s period as Director, Omer Meir Wellber is to be Music Director at Volksoper Wien from 1 September 2022. In addition to directing new productions and repertoire performances, for five seasons he will be chiefly responsible for the musical life of the Volksoper and for the development of …
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With their “Living Room Concerts”, the Wiener Symphoniker present concerts “at home” for their audience. Omer Meir Wellber will lead the traditional Vienna orchestra for the first time on this occasion. The Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, and Music Director of the Teatro Massimo Palermo, will conduct works by Mozart and Kodály as well …
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Omer Meir Wellber will conduct livestream concerts with the orchestra of the Teatro Massimo Palermo on November 14 and 19. The program on November 14 will include Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, Fauré’s Pelléas et Mélisande, suite op. 80 and Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 in B flat minor. The livestream concert on November 19 …
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Omer Meir Wellber will lead the premiere of the new production of “Die Zauberflöte” on November 1, 2020. This grand opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was newly staged by Josef E. Köpplinger. Beforehand Omer Meir Wellber spoke with dramaturg Johann Casimir Eule, the interview can be found here. “Die Zauberflöte” overview: November …
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Omer Meir Wellber, together with the BBC Philharmonic, soprano Claudia Barainsky and clarinetist John Bradbury, will release a recordings by Paul Ben-Haim at Chandos on October 30. Tracklist: 1-3 PAN, OP. 17 (1931)*†A Symphonic Poem for Soprano and OrchestraPoem by Heinrich LautensackAlex Jakeman flood4 – 10 PASTORAL VARIÉE, OP. 31b (1945, revised 1948) † ‡for …
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