Jan Vogler with Friedrich Gulda’s cello concerto in Vienna (June 2024)

Cellist Jan Vogler will travel to Vienna on 27 and 29 June with a special program under the baton of conductor Omer Meir Wellber to play Friedrich Gulda’s concerto for cello and wind orchestra at  Volksoper.

The concerto for cello and wind orchestra by Vienna-born Friedrich Gulda is a rarely performed work, which also stands out because of its special instrumentation. The premiere took place in 1981 with Heinrich Schiff, one of Jan Vogler’s teachers, and Wiener Bläserensemble under the direction of the composer.

June 27 & 29, Vienna, Volksoper Vienna
Orchestra of the Volksoper Vienna, Omer Meir Wellber
Gulda: Concerto for cello and wind orchestra
Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Themes, op. 34
Schubert: Symphony No. 3 in D major, D 200

Omer Meir Wellber and Jan Vogler know each other from various projects, such as the CD recording of Pop Songs (Sony Classical, 2022) and concerts at the Dresden Music Festival, among others. On June 22 and 28, Wellber, who has just conducted the new production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde by Daniele Menghini at the Teatro Massimo, will conduct Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at Volksoper Vienna. Further information on omermeirwellber.com

Jan Vogler is currently the artistic director of the Dresden Music Festival in Dresden, where the festival is taking place until June 9. Yesterday he played Anna Clyne’s Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Dance with the Philharmonia Orchestra at Kulturpalast, followed by concerts in Heidenheim with the Dresden Festival Orchestra on June 10, in Rostock with the Norddeutsche Philharmonie on June 16, 17 and 18 and at Schloss Neuhardenberg on June 19. His latest CD recording with the world premiere recording of Enrique Casal’s Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in F major and Edouard Lalo’s Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in D minor was released by Sony Classical in March 2023 – together with the Moritzburg Festival Orchestra, the CD commemorates the 200th birthday of Édouard Lalo and is also a tribute to Pablo Casals on the 50th anniversary of his death. These pieces were recorded with the 50 young musicians of the Moritzburg Festival Orchestra under the direction of Josep Caballé Domenech.

Further information at janvogler.com

Omer Meir Wellber at State Opera Hamburg, Teatro Massimo and Volksoper Vienna (May & June 2024)

On short notice, Omer Meir Wellber, designated music director of the Hamburg State Opera and Orchestra from September 2025 onwards, will jump in for two performances on June 16 and on June 20 of a revival production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte at the Hamburg State Opera, leading from the Hammerklavier as he often does in this repertoire. Hamburg audiences have seen him on several occasions in the past years, for example, as artist-in-residence of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival 2022 as well as guest-conducting at the Elbphilharmonie.

Today, May 29 and on May 31, the final two performances of Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde in the hugely successful new production by Daniele Menghini, take place under Wellber’s direction at Teatro Massimo in Palermo. The famous Swedish soprano Nina Stemme is looking at singing her last “Isolde” in tonight’s performance!

At the end of June before heading to Israel to work with his orchestra Raanana Symphonette in early July, Omer Meir Wellber will end the season in Vienna conducting Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte on June 22 and June 28 as well as a symphonic concert on June 27 and June 29 at the Volksoper with guest soloist Jan Vogler playing the rarely performed cello concerto by Friedrich Gulda.

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May 29 & 31, Palermo, Teatro Massimo
Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

www.teatromassimo.it

June 16 & 20, Hamburg, State Opera                               
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte

www.staatsoper-hamburg.de

June 22 & 28, Vienna, Volksoper
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte

www.volksoper.at/production/die-zauberflote

June 27 & 29, Vienna, Volksoper
Friedrich Gulda: Concerto for cello and wind orchestra
Sergei Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Themes, op. 34
Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 3 in D major, D 200
Jan Vogler, cello

www.volksoper.at/production/konzert-gulda

Omer Meir Wellber conducts Richard Wagner’s “Tristan and Isolde” at Teatro Massimo in Palermo (May 2024)