Omer Meir Wellber’s first New Year’s Concert as General Music Director with the Hamburg State Orchestra (December 2025)

Omer Meir Wellber takes up his role as the new General Music Director in Hamburg (September 2025)

Hamburg’s new General Music Director, Omer Meir Wellber, begins his 5-year tenure this coming Sunday, opening the 25/26 operatic and symphonic season with the first Philharmonic Concert of the Philharmonic State Orchestra on 14 and 15 September at the Elbphilharmonie. The season’s programmes focus on a very special kind of dialogue between the present and the past under the motto “no risk, no fun”.   Pianist Stephen Hough will play Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto – with a newly composed second movement by Hough himself  – followed by Bruckner’s 7th symphony. This unusual idea of “over-writing” single movements will be repeated in all concerts this season by international composers – have a look here at the concert programmes this season.   You can listen to the concert from 15 September on NDR Kultur.

Two weeks later, the Hamburg State Opera’s opening weekend takes place featuring the Housewarming Concert (26 September) and the new staged production of Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri (September 27), conducted by Omer Meir Wellber and directed by Tobias Kratzer. Upcoming concerts with Omer Meir Wellber in Hamburg: 14, 15 September     Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie Beethoven: Klavierkonzert Nr.3 c-Moll op. 37 Stephen Hough: 2. Satz Beethoven Klavierkonzert Anton Bruckner: Sinfonie Nr. 7 E-Dur Stephen Hough, piano 27 September     Hamburg, Staatsoper                    premiere Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri Further performances on 30.09., 3., 11., 14., 24.10., 1.11. 5 October    Hamburg, Staatsoper Strauss: Salome Weitere Aufführungen am 7., 9., 12.10. 10, 30 October     Hamburg, Staatsoper’ Mozart: Così fan tutte 8 October     Blaue Woche, Hamburg Boulez, Marteau sans maitre Lotte Betts-Dean, Mezzosopran 12, 13 October     Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie Vivaldi/Piazzolla: The mandolin seasons Respighi: Metamorphosen Jacob Reuven, mandolin

Omer Meir Wellber at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Neuschwanstein Castle and others (July 2025)

Conductor Omer Meir Wellber is currently presenting a special project entitled “Trust Your Ears” at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, featuring Josef Bardanashvili’s commission for the festival, “Near and Far.” Further information about the concerts on 8 and 9 July and the concert with tenor Mert Süngü on 19 July can be found here. On 5 August, conductor Omer Meir Wellber will lead the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie and other renowned classical artists in a “journey through the world of opera” at Neuschwanstein Castle. Further information about the concert programme can be found here. He will also be performing with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie at the Rheingau Music Festival on 25 July, and at the AUDI Sommerkonzerte on 25 July.  

Omer Meir Wellber conducts “Carmen” in Rome (June 2025)

On June 21, Omer Meir Wellber will conduct the premiere of Bizet’s Carmen at the Rome Opera, directed by Fabio Ceresa. Following his debut at the Rome Opera in the 2023/24 season, this production is Wellber’s third project at the helm.

21 June Rome, Rome Opera House                              Premiere
Bizet: Carmen
Fabio Ceresa, conductor
Additional performances on: June 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28

Information about the production can be found here.

Omer Meir Wellber in Paris (May 2025)

On 7 and 8 May, Omer Meir Wellber will present the KaiserRequiem, his own creation of Mozart’s Requiem and Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis, at the Philharmonie de Paris.

7 and 8 May Paris, Philharmonie de Paris
Orchestre de Paris, Chœur de l’Orchestre de Paris
KaiserRequiem

Further information here.

Omer Meir Wellber conducts his creation “KaiserRequiem” at Volksoper Wien (January 2024)

Omer Meir Wellber concludes his time as music director at the Teatro Massio in Palermo with the New Year’s Concert. However, he will return to the house as a guest conductor in April and May to conduct a new production of Strauss’ Salome.

On January 25, 2025, a new production of the KaiserRequiem will premiere at the Vienna Volksoper, his own creation of Mozart’s Requiem and Viktor Ullmann’s The Emperor of Atlantis, with the Vienna State Ballet (choreography and direction Andreas Heise). In 2024, Omer Meir Wellber conducted a very special world premiere at the Volksoper: the new opera by composer Ella Milch-Sheriff ALMA which was a big success. In May, the KaiserRequiem will be presented in a semi-staged performance at the Philharmonie de Paris under the direction of Omer Meir Wellber with the Orchestre de Paris.

The spring will take Omer Meir Wellber first to London to the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and then to Leipzig to the Gewandhaus Orchestra. From September 2025, he will begin his first season as General Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Hamburg State Opera and Hamburg General Music Director of the Philharmonic State Orchestra.

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Omer Meir Wellber with a special New Year’s concert at the Teatro Massimo (December 2024)

For Omer Meir Wellber, the new year begins with a very special program at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo. Together with Guy Mintus and the orchestra and choir of the Teatro Massimo, he presents a concert program that combines Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony with improvisations on Neapolitan songs.

1 January 2025, 6 pm | Sala Grande, Teatro Massimo
Omer Meir Wellber – conductor and accordion
Guy Mintus – piano and orchestrations
Orchestra and choir of the Teatro Massimo
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A major op. 90 (arrangement by Guy Mintus with improvisations on Neapolitan songs)

Further information on the evening’s program at teatromassimo.it