Omer Meir Wellber at the Bach Festival in Leipzig (June 2019)

On 18 June 2019, Omer Meir Wellber will conduct a special project on The Art of the Fugue by J. S. Bach at the Bach Festival in Leipzig’s Thomaskirche with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.

The composers of the project are:

Maximilian Otto – Fugue 1
Peter Tornyai – Fugue 5
Carlo Boccadoro – Fugue 7
Sven-David Sandström – Joint 8
Ferran Cruixent – Fugue 9
Bernd Franke – Fugue 11
Aziza Sadikova – Fugue 12
Ella Milch-Sheriff – Fugue 14

Omer Meir Wellber himself says about the project: “The Art of the Fugue« has been a fountain of inspiration and continues to be. Composers from all over the globe chose and orchestrated Fuges, dialoging with Bach through new orchestral perspectives. This project is about cultural immigration: we bring the world into the core of the European musical tradition, a dialog through sound and color.”

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– J. S. Bach: The Art of the Fugue, in new arrangements
– F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Christus (Fragment)
– F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Wie der Hirsch schreit nach frischem Wasser

Omer Meir Wellber conducts premiere of Nabucco (May 2018)

On 25 May 2019, Omer Meir Wellber will conduct the premiere of Verdi’s Nabucco at the Semperoper Dresden as the orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor.

Further dates and information can be found here.

As part of the production, the Semperoper shot a three-part Making-of Nabucco with director David Bösch, set designer Patrick Bannwart and conductor Omer Meir Wellber. Here you can watch the third part.