The coming weeks

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 June and with Mikhail Pletnev on 9 June). At the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Wellber conducts performances of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin in mid-May and will be at the Bregenzer Festspiele for one of the orchestral concerts with the Wiener Symphoniker in July, the program includes the world premiere of the concerto for continuo and large orchestra In Motion by Ayal Adler. Wellber will conduct a special program at Munich’s Isarphilharmonie on 14 and 15 June; together with the Munich Philharmonic, he will present, among other works, the world premiere of Manfred Trojahn’s new work for percussion and orchestra, “En plein jour – Minotauromachie.”

19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25 May – Palermo, Teatro Massimo
Tschaikowski: Eugen Onegin

5 June – Parma, Toscanini Festival
Verdi: Macbeth Overture
Wagner: Lohengrin Overture
Schostakowitsch Cellokonzert Nr. 1
Respighi: Metamorphosen
Tschaikowski: Klavierkonzert Nr. 1
Wagner: Tannhäuser Overture
Respighi: Metamorphosen
Jan Vogler – Cello
Mikail Pletnev – Klavier

8 June – Dresden, Kulturpalast
Dresdner Musikfestspiele
Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini
Verdi: Macbeth Overture
Schostakowitsch: Cellokonzert Nr. 1
Wagner: Lohengrin Overture
Tschaikowski: Symphonie Nr. 6
Jan Vogler – Cello

9 June – Dresden, Kulturpalast
Dresdner Musikfestspiele
Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini
Verdi: Vespri Siciliani
Tschaikowski: Klavierkonzert Nr. 1
Wagner: Tannhäuser Overture
Respighi: Metamorphosen
Mikail Pletnev – Klavier

14, 15 June – München, Isarphilharmonie
Münchner Philharmoniker
Schumann: Ouvertüre zu Manfred Op. 115
Manfred Trojahn: Schlagzeugkonzert UA
Tschaikowski: Manfred-Sinfonie Op. 58
Simone Rubino – Schlagzeug

24, 29  June – Wien, Volksoper
Vivaldi Piazzolla: Die acht Jahreszeiten
Mandoline – Jacob Reuven

24 July Bregenz, Festspielhaus
Bregenzer Festspiele
Wiener Symphoniker
Strauss: Tanzsuite nach Klavierstücken von François Couperin, Auszüge
Ayal Adler: In Motion – Concerto for Continuo and Large Orchestra
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben