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 …
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/ …
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 …
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. …
The performances take place on December 15, 22, 30, and January 1 and 6. More information.
In December Omer Meir Wellber will also appear at the Teatro Filarmonico di Verona to conduct a production of Verdi’s Macbeth and a Gala concert on December 31. The performance dates for Macbeth are December 13, 16, 18, 20, 21, 23. More information.
Conductor Omer Meir WellberViolin Sergej KrylovDeutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin Programme Jean Sibelius – Violin Concerto in D-minorGustav Mahler – Symphony No. 1 in D-major Wednesday 10th October. 8.00pm
Conductor Omer Meir Wellber Piano Khatia Buniatishvili Soprano Ludmilla Bauerfeldt Mezzosoprano Shin Je Bang Tenor Jaeyoon Jung Bass Filippo Polinelli Soloists from the Accademia della Scala Orchestra and Chorus of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Programme Carlo Boccadoro – Invisibile Acropolis for orchestra Commissioned by the Theater of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, world première Ludwig van …
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