Omer Meir Wellber, Yaki Reuven – Director of the Be’er Sheva Conservatory of Music – and the Bedouin non-profit organization A New Dawn in the Negev have started a joined initiative to establish a quality program of music education for the Bedouins of the Negev – one of the poorest and most discriminated groups within …
Omer Meir Wellber conducts Bizet’s masterwork “Carmen” at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich on 19, 22 and 26 December. The opera is staged by Lina Wertmüller and the cast features Tareq Nazmi – Zuniga, Andrea Borghini – Moralès, Yonghoon Lee – Don José, Gábor Bretz – Escamillo, Alexander Kaimbacher – Dancaïro, Dean Power – Remendado, …
Omer Meir Wellber opens the season of the Raanana Symphonette Orchestra with three concerts on 29, 30 October and 1 November 2014. The program features Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20, played by Omer Meir Wellber himself, and a world premiere by Israeli composer Noam Sheriff: “Between Sacred & Secular” – a …
Omer Meir Wellber just returned from Pittsburgh where he made his US debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Mark Kanny writes about his performance: “The Israeli conductor fully embraced the expressive extremes of Tchaikovsky’s music and brought the score’s colors boldly to life. […] Wellber led an excitable performance, a depressive-manic performance.” On 18 and …
Omer Meir Wellber makes his US debut in October at the rostrum of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra leading the orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony. Wellber is joined by Spanish guitarist Pablo Sáinz Villegas, performing the guitar concerto of Joaquin Rodrigo. The program opens with Debussy’s Petite suite. While in Pittsburgh, Omer Meir Wellber will also …
Omer Meir Wellber starts into the new season 2014/15 with several performances at the Semperoper Dresden. On 17 September he will conduct a symphonic concert at the rostrum of the Sächsische Staatskapelle with works by Dvořák and Haydn. Shortly before, he leads revival performances of Così fan tutte und Daphne at the opera house. Cosi …
On 22 June, Omer Meir Wellber hosted an event at the Radialsystem Berlin to celebrate a two year cooperation between the Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin (DZHB) and the Israeli organisation Save a Child’s Heart (SACH). As the Good Will Ambassador of Save a Child’s Heart, Omer Meir Wellber welcomed the Israeli Ambassador to Germany Yakov Hadas-Handelsman, …
Beginning of May 2014, Bel Air classiques will release a DVD with Verdi’s “Aida” from the Arena di Verona under the musical direction of Omer Meir Wellber and staged by La Fura dels Baus. The recording of the jubilee performance from June 2013 – celebrating the first century of the Arena di Verona Opera Festival …
Israeli conductor Omer Meir Wellber who just led successfully several productions at the Semperoper Dresden makes his UK debut at the Glyndebourne Festival on 18 May 2014 with the musical direction of Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” at the rostrum of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. The opera is a revival of Graham Vick’s production from 1994. Omer Meir …
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Omer Meir Wellber who became Good Will Ambassador for the non-profit organization “Save a child’s heart” in September last year looks forward to supporting the Israeli-based international organization in 2014. In the course of the past year “Save a child’s heart” saved over 252 children from 18 countries, trained 32 doctors and screened 734 children in Israel and abroad. “Save a child’s heart” provides lifesaving cardiac …
