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Omer Meir Wellber conducts the premiere performance of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice on 21 June. As a collaboration between the Venice Biennale and the Teatro La Fenice this special project presents a new Japanese production, intending to reveal the vitality and modernity of grand opera. Japanese artist Mariko Mori …

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Omer Meir Wellber conducts Verdi’s Aida to open the Opera Festival at the Arena di Verona on 14 June 2013. The performance is staged by La Fura dels Baus, the renowned Catalan theatre group. With Aida the festival celebrates not only Verdi’s 200th anniversary in 2013 but also the first century of the Arena di …

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Completing the Verdi trilogy of the Wiener Festwochen, Omer Meir Wellber will conduct the premiere of “Il Trovatore” at the Theater an der Wien on 26 May. On the occasion of the composer’s 200th birthday, Wellber had been assigned to conduct Verdi’s big three operas: “Rigoletto” in 2011 and “La Traviata” in 2012. The new …

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On 24 May, Omer Meir Wellber will conduct the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Red Ribbon Celebration Concert in the Burgtheater in Vienna. The gala concert, featuring Anna Netrebko, Elisabeth Kulman, Erwin Schrott, Piotr Beczala, Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, René Pape and others, supports the Clinton Health Access Initiative, one of the most important global organizations …

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In collaboration with the Arena di Verona, the Raanana Symphonette Orchestra – conducted by Omer Meir Wellber – celebrates Verdi’s 200th birthday with a special open air gala concert at Amphipark in Raanana on 25 July 2013. The programme features arias from Verdi operas such as Aida, Nabucco, La Traviata and Rigoletto presented by soloists …

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Omer Meir Wellber is returning to the Israeli Opera to conduct a new production of Otello. Based on Shakespeare’s play Verdi has created a musical drama in which Moor Otello (Gustavo Porta/Kor Jan Dusseljee) murders his Venetian wife Desdemona (Ira Bertman/Ilona Mataradze) in a rage of uncontrolled jealousy created by the evil Iago (Marco Vratogna/ …

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Omer Meir Wellber conducts a live recording of Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin that is being released as a DVD/Blu-ray from Cmajor in April 2013. The recording was made during his first year as Music Director at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia at the rostrum of the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana. …

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Omer Meir Wellber conducts his ninth opera production at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia: the premiere of Rossini’s opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia takes place on 28 February. The cast features Mario Cassi as Figaro, Silvia Vázquez as Rosina, Edgardo Rocha as Conde de Almaviva and Marco Camastra  as Bartolo. Stage direction is …

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On 26 January, Omer Meir Wellber conducts the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana in a concert at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia featuring Carl Maria von Weber’s Overture to “Der Freischütz” as well as Mendelssohn’s and Schumann’s Fourth Symphonies.    More information

Omer Meir Wellber conducts the premiere of Verdi’s opera “I due Foscari” on 24 January in Valencia with further performances on 27, 30 January, 2, 5 and 8 February. Directed by American Thaddeus Strassberger, the opera is a co-production of Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Los Angeles Opera, Theater an der Wien and The Royal Opera London.   …

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