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 the Omer Meir Wellber and different guests from various points of view.......
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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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......
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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......
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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......
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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. ...
Israeli conductor Omer Meir Wellber has been appointed as the BBC Philharmonic’s new Chief Conductor. He takes up the post in September 2019 and his initial contract is for four years. Omer Meir Wellber, 36, will conduct the orchestra in its concert series at the......
Find here the concert dates of our PR and management artists from December 2018 until February 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 Saturday, 15 September, Omer Meir Wellber will give his debut at the Lucerne Festival – together with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra he will give concerts in Lucerne, as well as at the Dortmund Concert House and Birmingham. Find here an overview of......
July 27th 2018. From January 2020 the conductor Omer Meir Wellber will be Music Director of the Fondazione Teatro Massimo in Palermo. The agreement was signed last night by Omer Meir Wellber, Francesco Giambrone (Sovrintendente of the Teatro Massimo) and Leoluca Orlando (President of the......
On 26 and 29 July Omer Meir Wellber conducts two performances of Verdi’s Les Vêpres siciliennes at the Bavarian State Opera, on the occasion of Munich Opera Festival. The new production was premiered in March 2018, also led by Omer Meir Wellber. Find here further......
From 12 until 14 July, Omer Meir Wellber will be guest at SWR Symphony Orchestra in Stuttgart and Freiburg after his successful debut with the orchestra in December 2017. The concert on 13 July at 20.00 will be streamed live from Liederhalle Stuttgart at ARTE......
Omer Meir Wellber will be guest with the SWR Symphony Orchestra from 12 – 14 July for concerts in Stuttgart and in Freiburg. On the program will be Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto with violinist Gil Shaham and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4. Find here more information on......
Find here the concert dates of our PR and management artists from September until November 2018 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 Thursday, 21 June the opera performance of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly with conductor Omer Meir Wellber at Glyndebourne Festival can be watched as live stream at 6.30 p.m. GMT (7.30 p.m. CET). Omer Meir Wellber will conduct the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Find the link to......
On Friday, 15 June, conductor Omer Meir Wellber will conduct an open air concert together with Staatskapelle Dresden at Gläserne Manufaktur of Volkswagen in Dresden. Selected works of opera repertoire will be performed. Soloist will be the tenor Piotr Beczala. Find here further information on......
On 1 and 2 June, Omer Meir Wellber will stand at the rostrum of the Orchestre national de Lyon. Together with pianist Radu Lupu they will perform Beethoven’s piano concerto No. 3. Also works by Bardanashvili and Haydn will be on the program. Find here......
Omer Meir Wellber will conduct Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at this year’s Glyndebourne Festival. For this he will stand at the rostrum of London Philharmonic Orchestra. The Premiere of this production by Annilese Miskimmon will be celebrated on 19 May. Find here further information and performance......
On Sunday, 29 April, Omer Meir Wellber will conduct the revival performance of Boito’s Mefistofele at Bavarian State Opera in Munich, with Erwin Schrott in the title role. Further performances will take place on 3 and 6 May. This production of Mefistofele celebrated its premiere......
On Sunday, 15 April, Omer Meir Wellber will be guest at Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin with a Bernstein and Mahler program in the Konzerthaus, Berlin. Soloist will be violinist Erez Ofer. Find more information on this concert here. The concert will be live broadcasted at Deutschlandfunk Kultur......
On 25 and 26 March 2018, Midori and Omer Meir Wellber, Principal Guest Conductor of the Semperoper Dresden, will play concerts with the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden: 25 and 26 March, 20.00 – Dresden, Semperoper Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden Ramérez: “Misa Criolla” Bernstein: Serenade after Plato’s Symposion......
Verdi’s Les Vêpres siciliennes, staged by Antú Romero Nunes and conducted by Omer Meir Wellber, will celebrate its premiere on 11 March 2018 at the Bavarian State Opera. It will be Omer Meir Wellber’s first encounter with this rarely performed opera. Find here further information......
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In 2018, the Semperoper is appointing conductor Omer Meir Wellber, who made his debut in Dresden in 2010 and has subsequently been responsible for numerous outstanding productions, as its Principal Guest Conductor. This has been announced today at the press conference presenting season 2018/19. Click......
On 25, 27 and 28 January 2018 conductor Omer Meir Wellber will give his debut concerts with the Houston Symphony Orchestra. Together will violinist Simone Lamsma they will perform Britten’s violin concerto. Also on the program will be Mozart’s Ouverture of Idomeneo as well as......
Conductor Omer Meir Wellber is currently guest at Semperoper Dresden for revival performances of Tchaikovsky’s Eugen Onegin. First revival performance will be on Tues, 19 December 2017. The production was premiered in June 2016, staged by Markus Bothe. Find here more information on the piece......
Find here the concert dates of our PR and management artists from March until May 2018 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 29 November and 1 December conductor Omer Meir Wellber will give his debut at SWR Symphony Orchestra in Stuttgart. Together they will present works by Debussy, Zimmermann and Schubert. Omer Meir Wellber will also be present during the introduction talks on both concert nights......
The concert with Omer Meir Wellber, Isabelle Faust and the MCO Academy in the Philharmonie Cologne on 16 November could be watched as livestream online. It is now availabe to watch on demand for 30 days. Please watch it here....
Conductor Omer Meir Wellber will give three concerts in Cologne, Dortmund and Essen from 16 – 18 November with the Academy of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Violinist Isabelle Faust will play Berg’s concerto for violin. Further, Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 will be on the program.......
After his successful debut concert at Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, conductor Omer Meir Wellber has been invited again this season: On 28 and 29 October he will conduct concerts at Tonhalle Maag in Zürich, performing works by Haydn, Gubaidulina and Brahms. Find more information on these......
Find here the list of new CD, DVD and book releases of PR² classic artists in 2017 as an overview....
On 21 and 22 September conductor Omer Meir Wellber will be guest in Leipzig/Germany and will stand at the rostrum of Gewandhaus orchestra, conducting works by Schnittke, Haydn, Mendelssohn and Schubert. Find more information on the concerts here. The concert on 21 September will be......
After Israeli conductor Omer Meir Wellber has conducted the Orchestre National de Lyon on 1 September in La Côte Saint-André as guest of Festival Berlioz, he is currently travelling to Israel to conduct the Raanana Symphonette on 9, 10 and 11 September as Music Director......
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Find here the concert dates of our PR and management artists from September until November 2017 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 Friday, May 26, conductor Omer Meir Wellber will lead the premiere of the new production of Massenet’s Werther at Teatro Massimo in Palermo with the Orchestra del Teatro Massimo, staged by Giorgia Guerra. The performances after the premiere will be on May 27, 28,......
Find here the concert dates of our PR and management artists from July until September 2017 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 Sunday, 23 April 2017, an artist talk with conductor Omer Meir Wellber will take place in the Societätstheater in Dresden. Journalist Michael Ernst will present the event and lead through the discussion. The conductor will mostly talk about his new book “Fear, risk and......
