Hyperion’s recording of works by John Tavener with Stefen Isserlis, Omer Meir Wellber, Matthew Rose and the Philharmonia Orchestra “Tavener: No longer mourn for me & other works for cello” won the BBC Music Magazine’s Premiere Award 2021.
Omer Meir Wellber receives the literary prize “Cielo D’Alcamo” in the category “Premio Speciale Internazionale” for his novel “Storia vera e non vera di Chaim Birkner”, which was published in January 2021 by the Italian publishing house Sellerio Editore. On 25 March, the award ceremony of the literary prize took place. The novel was published …
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On Friday, 19 March at 20:30 Omer Meir Wellber will conduct the Filarmonica Toscanini in Parma with a program of works by Beethoven, Dorman and Strauss. With mandolinist Avi Avital and himself on the harpsichord, he will present Dorman’s Concerto for Mandolin and and Bach’s Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D minor BWV 1052, adapted …
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On Saturday, 13 March, a concert with Omer Meir Wellber conducting Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 “Pathétique” at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo will be available via stream. The concert will be available on 13 March at 8 pm on Teatro Massimo’s WebTV and YouTube channel.
Omer Meir Wellber is the focus of the second issue of the new magazine #Sharp, founded in 2021. In a conversation with director Johannes Erath, with whom he staged the innovative production “Twilight of Dreams” (“Il crepuscolo dei sogni”) at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo in January, he explains why this production is so special …
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Under the musical direction of Omer Meir Wellber and the direction of Gianmaria Aliverta, the Teatro Massimo presents “Torneranno i at momenti”, an opera-film based on the Mozart/Da Ponte trilogy, on March 4,5 and 6. The production is specially designed for the Teatro’s youngest audience . More information can be found here.
Omer Meir Wellber and Axel Brüggemann can now be heard in conversation in the podcast “Brüggemanns Begegnungen – das etwas andere Klassik-Gespräch mit Axel Brüggemann.” The podcast is presented by Klassik Radio. Now available on Spotify.
Omer Meir Wellber conducts Verdi’s ERNANI in Palermo – 22 years after its last production was realized at the Teatro Massimo. Friday, 26 February 2021, at 8 p.m. (CET) as a livestream on Teatro Massimo’s WebTv and available afterwards on demand on YouTube In 1844, ERNANI was premiered at the Teatro La Fenice in Venedig, …
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“Unlike many theaters and opera houses in Europe, however, the “Massimo” cannot be kept quiet. “Il crepuscolo dei sogni” – “Traumdämmerung” is what German opera director Johannes Erath and Massimo’s music director Omer Meir Wellber called their concert, which they simply added to their program. In an interview, Erath calls it a symphonic condensation of …
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Teatro Massimo, in collaboration with the University of Palermo, commemorates International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January with a special program featuring the Teatro Massimo Orchestra, Choir and Soloists, as well as Eli Danker and works by Arnold Schoenberg and Sergei Prokofiev, as well as the Jewish prayer Eli Ata veodeka. This will be followed …
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