Today, 15 September, Omer Meir Wellber presents an opera production at the Volksoper Wien that is very special for him – Richard Strauss’ Salome. Omer Meir Wellber had a special relationship with Luc Bondy (1948 – 2015) since his collaboration with him for a production......
Omer Meir Wellber announces his resignation as Music Director of the Volksoper Wien for personal reasons as of 31 December 2023. His successor as of 1 January 2024 is the British conductor Ben Glassberg. It is with a heavy heart and after careful consideration that......
Omer Meir Wellber will tour Germany and Spain in August and September with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. In ten concerts at the Musikfest Bremen, Rheingau Musik Festival and Festival Internacional Santander, among others, Wellber will present together with violinist Hilary Hahn a program with works......
Tomorrow the Hebrew edition of Omer Meir Wellber’s novel ארבע פעמים התעלף חיים בירקנר (The four faints of Chaim Birkner) will be published by Keren Publishing House. A publication event will take place tomorrow, 7 July 2023 at the Guitar Loft in Tel Aviv/Israel, more information can be......
Omer Meir Wellber is currently a guest with the Münchner Philharmoniker at the Isarphilharmonie – the program includes works by Schumann, Tchaikovsky and the world premiere of a work by Manfred Trojahn. In an interview with BR Klassik, Wellber talks about the special program, as......
On Thursday and Friday, Omer Meir Wellber will be a guest in Dresden with the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini. Thursday’s concert will feature a program of works by Verdi, Shostakovtian, Wagner and Tchaikovsky with cellist and the festival’s artistic director Jan Vogler. Jan Vogler will interpret......
Premieres, new productions, awards and special concert programs – below you will find an overview of what our artists will be featuring on international concert stages in the coming months....
Tonight Omer Meir Wellber will present a special program in Parma together with the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini and mandolinist Jacob Reuven. In addition to works by Webern and Tschaikowski, Wellber will present Aziza Sadikova’s Chaconne for Mandolin and Large Orchestra for the first time. Please......
Today’s concert with Omer Meir Wellber and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra will be broadcasted live at 7:00 pm CET on Berwaldhallen Play and in the Swedish Radio. The special program combines contemporary pieces from Ella Milch-Sheriff (The Eternal Stranger) and Anders Hillborg (Viola Concerto)......
Hamburg, 24 February 2023 – Omer Meir Wellber will become Hamburg General Music Director of the Philharmonic State Orchestra as well as General Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Hamburg State Opera as of the 2025/2026 season. The press release of the Hamburg Ministry......
In January, the monodrama “The Eternal Stranger” by Ella Milch-Sheriff will be performed in Boston and Zurich under the musical direction of Omer Meir Wellber and with speaker Eli Danker. “The Eternal Stranger” was written on the occasion of Beethoven’s 250th birthday on Omer Meir......
On 17 December, Omer Meir Wellber conducts “The Creation” by Haydn at the Volksoper in Vienna. In the video, he explains what is particularly interesting about this piece for him. More information can be found here....
The Kaiserrequiem live on Teatro Massimo TV on 8 November at 20:15 CET – the joint creation by Music Director of Teatro Massimo Omer Meir Wellber and director Marco Gandini combines Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis with Mozart’s Requiem. More information here....
Omer Meir Wellber began his tenure as Music Director of the Volksoper Wien on 1 September. With Jolanthe and the Nutcracker, a musical theater based on the opera and ballet by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Wellber will present his first new production at the house on......
Omer Meir Wellber’s novel was published in French by Éditions du sous-sol in August, Les Absences de Haïm Birkner tells the story of Chaim Birkner, a tired and broken man who is forced by his daughter to face life one last time. The novel was......
Tonight’s concert on June 29 will be broadcast next Friday, July 1, starting at 8:05 p.m. on MDR Kultur & MDR Klassik. Further information can be found here. Interesting details about the concert program as well as artists can be found in the digital......
With the CD release The Mandolin Seasons, Omer Meir Wellber and mandolinist Jacob Reuven fulfill a long-held wish. Jacob Reuven and Omer Meir Wellber grew up together in the Israeli desert city of Be’er Sheva – Reuven with Iraqi Jewish roots and Wellber coming from......
On 15 April, Omer Meir Wellber will be awarded the Rudi Häussler Prize in the course of the performance of Don Giovanni. Omer Meir Wellber was already awarded the prize in 2020, but due to the pandemic the award ceremony could not take place until......
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The BBC celebrates its centenary in 2022 and Omer Meir Wellber will join the BBC Philharmonic and pianist Giulia Contaldo for this weekend’s festivities. More information about the concert can be found here. 🗓 Saturday 12th Feb, 7.30pm @BridgewaterHall BBC Philharmonic/ Omer Meir Wellber......
In two days, Omer Meir Wellber will conduct the new production of Verdi’s Les Vêpres siciliennes, staged by Emma Dante, at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo which will be streamed live on ARTE Concert on 20 January at 7 p.m. CET. Omer Meir Wellber started......
Omer Meir Wellber presents a special program in Hamburg and Lübeck together with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester. Ella Milch Sheriff’s monodrama Der ewige Fremde was premiered in February 2020 at the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig with the same protagonists as here in Hamburg and Lübeck. You......
On 9 December, Omer Meir Wellber will conduct a guest performance with the Orchestre National de France in Paris. The program includes Schubert’s Symphony No. 3, Dutilleux’s Correspondances for soprano and orchestra with soprano Camilla Tilling, and Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 4 with Stephen Hough......
Currently, Omer Meir Wellber is at the Wiener Staatsoper conducting Bizet’s Carmen in a production by Calixto Bieito. For more information on the cast and upcoming dates on 13, 16, 19 November, please click here. Here you can find a conversation in German with Omer......
On 20 January 2022, the new season of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo will officially begin – Omer Meir Wellber will conduct Giuseppe Verdi’s Les Vêpres siciliennes in a production by Palermo-born director Emma Dante. More information about the production can be found here. The......
At the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Omer Meir Wellber conducts a production of George Bizet’s opera Carmen today. The production staged by Calixto Bieito will be live streamed on Teatro Massimo TV. It was already performed in 2011 as a co-production of the Teatro Massimo and......
Omer Meir Wellber will present a special program on 6 September at 9:30 pm in the unfinished church of Santa Maria dello Spasimo, as part of the summer of Teatro Massimo in Palermo. Together with Ruggiero Mascellino (accordion and composer) and Vito Giordano (flugelhorn), Omer......
As part of the 2021 summer season, Omer Meir Wellber will conduct the ballet Giselle with music by Adolphe Adam at the Teatro di Verdura on 29 and 30 July. The performance is a tribute to Italian dancer Carla Fracci, who was best known for......
On Sunday, 9 July Omer Meir Wellber will conduct the Orchestra di Teatro Massimo at Teatro di Verdura in Palermo. With pianist Daniel Ciobanu, mezzosoprano Natalia Gavrilan and the choir of the Teatro Massimo, the program will include works by Rachmaninov and Prokofiev. Sunday, 4......
Omer Meir Wellber with the BBC Philharmonic and soprano Claudia Barainsky performing Paul Ben-Haim’s “Pan.” Listen on BBC Radio 3 here....
On 28 May at 10:00 p.m. German time, Omer Meir Wellber will be a guest on the NDR Talk Show. Moderated by Barbara Schöneberger and Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt, the guests will include actress Maria Furtwängler, comedian Bastian Pastewka, author Dr. Eckart von Hirschhausen, singer Gil Ofarim,......
After a long time, Austria again opens its houses to the public and Omer Meir Wellber gives the first concert after a long time with the Wiener Symphoniker and Julian Rachlin. The program includes Prokofiev‘s Concerto for violin and orchestra No.2 in g-minor and Shostakovich’s......
The Music Room continues! After exploring Beethoven with The Music Room: Reflecting Beethoven (2020), now follows The Music Room: Discovering Ben-Haim. On four dates, the Israeli composer Paul Ben-Haim will be discussed by Omer Meir Wellber and different guests from various points of view. The......
Omer Meir Wellber, music director of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, receives the special prize of the Associazione Nazionale Critici Musicali. The jury’s reasons: “[…] after months of silence, homages to Beethoven and a surprise evening of jazz, shone in the empty church of the......
Omer Meir Wellber returns to Stockholm for a livestream concert with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. The concert on 16 April at 7 p.m., which will be streamed live as concert video on Berwaldhallen Play and played on Swedish Radio P2, will feature Ella Milch-Sheriff’s......
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......
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......
On Saturday, 13 March at 8 pm, 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 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. Read the issue with Omer Meir Wellber here....
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......
On February 26, Omer Meir Wellber will conduct the Teatro Massimo’s production of Verdi’s four-part opera “Ernani” in Palermo. The semi-staged production will be broadcast live on Teatro WebTV. For more information, click here. February 26, Verdi: Ernani Omer Meir Wellber Orchestra dell Teatro Massimo......
“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.......
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......
On January 25 at 6:30 p.m., Omer Meir Wellber will present the Italian translation of his novel “Die vier Ohnmachten des Chaim Birkner” (The Four Faints of Chaim Birkner) in a live conversation on YouTube. “Storia vera e non vera di Chaim Birkner” will be......
On 26 January, Teatro Massimo opens the 2021 season with a special production with Omer Meir Wellber and Johannes Erath. With “Il crepuscolo dei sogni,” Wellber and Erath trace a dreamlike path between light and shadow, from Strauss’s “Traum durch die Dämmerung” to Schubert’s “Winterreise,”......
In the coming last weeks of December, Omer Meir Wellber will conduct special performances at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo via livestream on Teatro Massimo Web TV:...
As of the start of Lotte de Beer’s period as Director, Omer Meir Wellber is to be Music Director at Volksoper Wien from 1 September 2022. In addition to directing new productions and repertoire performances, for five seasons he will be chiefly responsible for the......
Omer Meir Wellber will conduct livestream concerts with the orchestra of the Teatro Massimo Palermo on November 14 and 19. The program on November 14 will include Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, Fauré’s Pelléas et Mélisande, suite op. 80 and Schubert’s Symphony No. 8......
Omer Meir Wellber will lead the premiere of the new production of “Die Zauberflöte” on November 1, 2020. This grand opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was newly staged by Josef E. Köpplinger. Beforehand Omer Meir Wellber spoke with the dramaturg Johann Casimir......
Omer Meir Wellber, together with the BBC Philharmonic, soprano Claudia Barainsky and clarinetist John Bradbury, will release a recordings by Paul Ben-Haim at Chandos on October 30....
Omer Meir Wellber returns to the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig with a special program. On October 25 and 26 he will present Eight Seasons together with the Sinfonietta Leipzig and the mandolinist Jacob Reuven. He will conduct the Seasons of Piazzolla and Vivaldi himself on the......
Experience Omer Meir Wellber at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo with two special programmes on ARTE Concert: Watch Beethovens C-Dur Messe here. Watch Richard Wagners Parsifal here....
On September 25, violinist Midori and Omer Meir Wellber will present a joint program of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D Major and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in two concerts at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, one at 5 p.m. and one at 9 p.m. (CET).......
In the coming days Omer Meir Wellber will conduct two concerts at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo. 13 September Palermo, Teatro Massimo Orchestra del Teatro Massimo Mozart: Coronation Mass Schönberg: Survivors of Warsaw You can watch the concert here. On 16 September Omer Meir Wellber......
On Sunday, Omer Meir Wellber and the Munich Chamber Orchestra (MKO) will beginn their new concert season. In the Himmelfahrtskirche in Munich the concert will take place with a reduced audience and will be played two times. The Mandolinist Jacob Reuven will also be a......
The Music Room: Reflecting Beethoven. Ep.6...
First series of The Music Room: Reflecting Beethoven set to launch online on Thursday 16 July, 9pm (CET) The series features musicians from the BBC Philharmonic and special guests including Craig Charles, Maureen Lipman, Stephen Hough, Sally Beamish, Lorenzo Mariani, Fredun Mazaheri, Tom Redmond and......
The festival Sotto una nuova luce of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo “opens” the cultural scene in Palermo after the Corona shutdown with scenic performances at the Teatro as well as open air events at the Teatro della Verdura – Omer Meir Wellber conducts the......
Omer Meir Wellber will conduct the first concert after the Lockdown in Denmark with the DR Symfoniorkestret and Johan Reuter. With a maximum of 500 people in the audience, but also with a reduced orchestra on stage, Omer Meir Wellber will make his debut with......
Omer Meir Wellber, accordion Jacob Reven, mandolin Concerto in D Major RV 93, Second Movement – Antonio Vivaldi Venetian Waltz – Javob Reuven & Omer Meir Wellber Csárdás – Vittorio Monti...
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On Sunday, 15 March at 17:40 on ARTE Concert – Omer Meir Wellber and Hilary Hahn will present Johann Sebastian Bach’s violin concertos with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in the church of Saanen. You can watch the concert on ARTE Concert here. It is available......
Omer Meir Wellber with the BBC Philharmonic and the Dresden Kammerchor – Beethoven’s Mass in C and Symphony No. 4 at Bridgewater Hall in Manchester Listen to the concert on BBC Radio 3 here....
Omer Meir Wellber will conduct a work commissioned by the Gewandhausorchester in Leipzig on 20, 21 and 23 February: the monodrama The Eternal Stranger by Ella Milch-Sheriff, which found its inspiration on the occasion of Beethoven’s anniversary and deals with the various facets of foreignness.......
Omer Meir Wellber will be giving his debut with the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest and with it at the same time his debut at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. With works by Wagner, Mahler and Tschaikowski, the established conductor will have concerts in Utecht, Amsterdam and Antwerpen....
After his symphonic debut as Music Director at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo at the beginning of this year, Omer Meir Wellber will conduct the new production of Wagner’s Parsifal at the Teatro Massimo under the direction of Graham Vick at the end of January......
Let the year 2019 end with Kent Nagano and the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg at the New Year’s Eve Concert and works by Beethoven and Bach, among others. Find more information here. 31. December Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg New Year’s Eve Concert Gabriele: Symphoniae......
Omer Meir Wellber, newly appointed Music Director of the Teatro Massimo di Palermo, will conduct the New Year’s Concert on 1 January and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony on 4 January, opening the 2020 season. 1 January Palermo, Teatro Massimo Orchestra del Teatro Massimo New Year’s concert......
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Find here the concert dates of our PR and management artists from March to May 2020 at a glance. You will find information about our artists on each artist page on our website. Please contact us for more details: office[at]pr2classic.de....
Omer Meir Wellber will give his debut with the Munich Philharmonic on 21, 22 and 24 November 2019. Below you will find the programme of the concerts: 21, 22, 24 November Munich, Philharmonie Munich Philharmonic Orchestra Haydn: Symphony No. 49 Adler: Alone, I return from......
Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre in Dresden On 3 November, Omer Meir Wellber will conduct the premiere of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre in Dresden. The co-production with the Teatro Real in Madrid will be directed by Spanish opera director Calixto Bieito. Further performances will take place......
Poetic, political, wild…Today “Die vier Ohnmachten des Chaim Birkner” by conductor Omer Meir Wellber is published! Chaim Birkner is 108 years old and the oldest man in Israel. He came to Israel in 1944 and since then he has been lying his way through life,......
On 14 October 2019 the conductor Omer Meir Wellber will publish his literary debut “Die vier Ohnmachten des Chaim Birkner”, which will be published in German by BerlinVerlag. Learn more about the book here! “Chaim Birkner is 108 years old, the oldest man in Israel.......
Please join us today at 4:30 pm (UK time) for Omer Meir Wellber‘s concert as newly appointed Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester, the home of the orchestra, and experience a unique adaptation of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (2. Summer) with mandolinist Jacob Reuven......
Find here the concert dates of our PR and management artists from December 2019 to February 2020 at a glance. You will find information about our artists on each artist page on our website. Please contact us for more details: office[at]pr2classic.de....
On the microphone – Conductor Omer Meir Wellber “I was always afraid of Don Giovanni because I didn’t understand the conclusions exactly,” says Omer Meir Wellber. The chief conductor of the BBC Philharmonic describes how he overcame his fear of Mozart’s opera in Klassik-Pop-et cetera.......
Omer Meir Wellber will conduct works by i.a. Bach and Schubert together with violinist Hilary Hahn and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen at various renowned festivals in Germany, Spain and Switzerland. Concert dates and further information: 22 August Kloster Eberbach, Basilika Rheingau Musik Festival Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen......
Omer Meir Wellber’s concerts at the BBC Proms as the new Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic were praised highly by the British Press. Thanks to BBC Radio 3, the broadcast of those concerts can still be listened to online for another two and three......
😃Looking forward to our first @bbcproms concert this year @RoyalAlbertHall with our conductor #OmerMeirWellber & soloist @yeoleumson 🎶Listen live tonight @BBCRadio3 7.30pm 🎶#BBCProms pic.twitter.com/DbUKJMTgRD — BBC Philharmonic (@BBCPhilharmonic) July 23, 2019...
On 23 and 29 July 2019, Omer Meir Wellber will give his debut as the new Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and simultaneously at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in London. 23 July, London, Royal Albert Hall BBC Proms BBC......
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......
Find here the concert dates of our PR and management artists from September to November 2019 at a glance. You will find information about our artists on each artist page on our website. Please contact us for more details: office[at]pr2classic.de....
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......
On 27 April Omer Meir Wellber leads the revival of Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier at the Semperoper Dresden. Further dates and information can be found here. As the Principal Guest Conductor of the house, he will conduct the premiere of Verdi’s Nabucco on 25 May 2019.......
On 23 and 29 July, Omer Meir Wellber, designated Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, will conduct his debut concerts at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in London. On the program will be the following : 23 July, London, Royal Albert Hall......
Principal Guest Conductor Omer Meir Wellber will conduct two symphonic concerts with the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Dresdner Kammerchor on 14 and 15 April 2019. On the program will be works by Haydn and Górecki. Find more information on this here....
On Thursday, 21 March, Omer Meir Wellber conducted his debut concert in the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with the NDR Elbphilharmonie orchestra, with works by Haydn, Schnitte and Tchaikovsky. The concert was streamed live on ARTE Concert and is now available for 90 days. Click here. ...
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From Thursday, 21 March, Omer Meir Wellber will conduct concerts with the NDR Elbphilharmonie and will have his debut at the rostrum of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. He and the orchestra will present works by Tchaikovsky, Haydn and Schnittke. The concert on 21 March will......
On 9 March, Omer Meir Wellber will conduct a symphonic concert with the Orchestra del Teatro Massimo in Palermo. On the program will be works by Rimsky-Korsakov and Prokofiev. Soloists are pianist Daniel Ciobanu as well as mezzo soprano Ekaterina Seergeva. Find here further information......
Omer Meir Wellber conducts the revival performances of Wagner’s Tannhäuser on Sunday, 17 February at the Semperoper Dresden. Further performances take place on 2 and 10 March 2019. Those will be Omer Meir Wellber’s first opera performances, since he became Principal Guest Conductor at the......
Omer Meir Wellber is currently in Eilat in South Israel to conduct and hoste the Isrotel ClassiCameri Festival together with Raanana Symphonette. The festival runs from 2 – 5 January 2019. You can find further information on this festival here....
On 18 December, you can listen on air to Omer Meir Wellber’s first concert with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra from Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, which took place on 6 October 2018. The concert will be aired on BBC Radio 3 at 14.00 (GMT). You can......
Omer Meir Wellber is currently conducting the Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester in the Berwaldhallen in Stockholm. At the concerts on 13 and 15 December, pianist Jonathan Biss plays two piano concertos by Beethoven and Sally Beamish. Furthermore, Strauss’ “Ein Heldenleben” is presented. Find information about the......
Find here the concert dates of our PR and management artists from March until May 2019 at a glance. You will find information about our artists on each artist page on our website. Please contact us for more details: office[at]pr2classic.de....
Omer Meir Wellber will conduct performances of Bizet’s Carmen from 30 October at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. With those he will give his debut at the MET. Find here further information on those performances....
Omer Meir Wellber has recently arrived in New York, where he will conduct performances of Bizet’s Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera from 30 October. With those he will give his debut at the MET. Find here further information on those performances. ...
