On Thursday and Friday, Omer Meir Wellber will be a guest in Dresden with the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini. Thursday’s concert will feature a program of works by Verdi, Shostakovtian, Wagner and Tchaikovsky with cellist and the festival’s artistic director Jan Vogler. Jan Vogler will interpret Shostakovich’s Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No. 1. The evening’s …

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Omer Meir Wellber will conduct three concerts with the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini in June 2023, presenting a program with cellist Jan Vogler and pianist Mikhail Pletnev at the Toscanini Festival, of which he is Artistic Director, on 5 June and then traveling to the Dresden Music Festival for two concerts (with Jan Vogler on 8 …

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Tonight Omer Meir Wellber will present a special program in Parma together with the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini and mandolinist Jacob Reuven. In addition to works by Webern and Tschaikowski, Wellber will present Aziza Sadikova’s Chaconne for Mandolin and Large Orchestra for the first time. Please find more information on the work here. 4 May, 2023 …

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Today’s concert with Omer Meir Wellber and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra will be broadcasted live at 7:00 pm CET on Berwaldhallen Play and in the Swedish Radio. The special program combines contemporary pieces from Ella Milch-Sheriff (The Eternal Stranger) and Anders Hillborg (Viola Concerto) with Beethovens Symphony No. 5 and the ouverture from his …

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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. …

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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 …

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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.