Hamburg, 24 February 2023 – Omer Meir Wellber will become Hamburg General Music Director of the Philharmonic State Orchestra as well as General Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Hamburg State Opera as of the 2025/2026 season. The press release of the Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media can be found below and here. …
In January, the monodrama “The Eternal Stranger” by Ella Milch-Sheriff will be performed in Boston and Zurich under the musical direction of Omer Meir Wellber and with speaker Eli Danker. “The Eternal Stranger” was written on the occasion of Beethoven’s 250th birthday on Omer Meir Wellber’s initiative and takes as its starting point an astonishing …
On 17 December at 20:15 CET, this season’s production of “Jolanthe und der Nussknacker” will be broadcasted on 3Sat. The broadcast is available through 16 January. “Jolanthe und der Nussknacker” is about growing up and learning to see the world as it is. Director of the Volksoper Lotte de Beer and music director Omer Meir …
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On 17 December, Omer Meir Wellber conducts “The Creation” by Haydn at the Volksoper in Vienna. In the video, he explains what is particularly interesting about this piece for him. More information can be found here.
Since yesterday, Omer Meir Wellber is on tour with the Wiener Symphoniker – in Warsaw, Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne, Barcelona and Amsterdam, among others, he will present works by Mahler, Beethoven, Mozart and Eötvös with the orchestra. Soloists on the tour are Jan Lisiecki, Yulianna Avdeeva and Seong-Jin Cho. Sieh dir diesen Beitrag auf Instagram an …
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The Kaiserrequiem live on Teatro Massimo TV on 8 November at 20:15 CET – the joint creation by Music Director of Teatro Massimo Omer Meir Wellber and director Marco Gandini combines Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis with Mozart’s Requiem. More information here.
As the new music director of the Volksoper Wien, Omer Meir Wellber leads the new production of Jolanthe und der Nussknacker, a musical theater based on the opera and ballet by Tchaikovsky in a production by Volksoper director Lotte de Beer. The premiere will take place on 9 October. In Jolanthe und der Nussknacker, the …
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Omer Meir Wellber began his tenure as Music Director of the Volksoper Wien on 1 September. With Jolanthe and the Nutcracker, a musical theater based on the opera and ballet by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Wellber will present his first new production at the house on 9 October, together with the Artistic Director Lotte de Beer …
Omer Meir Wellber’s novel was published in French by Éditions du sous-sol in August, Les Absences de Haïm Birkner tells the story of Chaim Birkner, a tired and broken man who is forced by his daughter to face life one last time. The novel was also published in German (BerlinVerlag) and in Italian (Sellerio Editore). …
As portrait artist of the Schlewsig-Holstein Music Festival 2022 Omer Meir Wellber has put together a varied program of 14 concerts and can be experienced not only at the conductor’s podium, but also appears as a soloist on the accordion, harpsichord, grand piano and in readings. Please find an overview here. Find the artist oirtrait …
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