Omer Meir Wellber: MET Debut

Omer Meir Wellber will give his debut at Metropolitan Opera in New York with Bizet’s Carmen in October 2018.

Before, on 20 and 21 September Omer Meir Wellber will again be guest at Gewandhausorchestra Leipzig and will, among others, conduct Leonard Bernstein’s Facsimile, a choreographed and seldomly performed work for orchestra, together with ballet dancers from the Musikalische Komödie Leipzig.

Omer Meir Wellber will start season 2018/19 as Principal Guest Conductor at Semperoper Dresden and as such will conduct the premiere of Verdi’s Nabucco in May 2019 as well as revival performances of Wagner’s Tannhäuser, Strauss‘ Rosenkavalier and a symphonic concert with the Staatskapelle Dresden.

His Hamburg Elbphilharmonie debut will take place in March 2019 with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra.

During the season Omer Meir Wellber will also be guest at the Orchestra RAI Torino, the BBC Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Kammerphilharmonie Bremen (among others with a concert at Bachfest Leipzig).

In January 2020 he will become Music Director of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo. The program for this season (January – December 2020) will be announced in March 2019.

Find below an overview of the dates of Omer Meir Wellber at season 2018/19:

 

20, 21 September              Leipzig, Gewandhaus

                                               Gewandhausorchestra

                                               Haydn: Symphony g major Hob. I:88

                                               Bernstein: Facsimile – Choreographic Essay for Orchestra

                                               Prokofjev: Ouverture on Hebrew Themes op. 34

                                               Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 f minor op. 10

 

29 September                   Leeds, Town Hall

                                               BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

                                               Wagner: Lohengrin Ouverture

                                               Sibelius: Violin concerto d minor

                                               Brahms: Symphony No. 1

                                               Sergij Krylov – Violin

 

3 October                         Salford, MediaCityUK

                                               BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

                                               Mozart: Don Giovanni (Ouverture)

                                               Mozart: Exultate, jubilate

                                               Brahms: Symphony No. 1                     

                                               Fatma Said - Soprano

 

6. October Manchester, Bridgewater Hall

                                      BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

                                               Mozart: Symphony No. 36 “Linzer”

                                               Wagner: Walküre 1. Act

 

30 October                       New York, Metropolitan Opera

                                     Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

                                               Bizet: Carmen

                                      Further performances: 3, 6, 10, 15 November

 

13, 15 December               Stockholm, Berwaldhallen

                                               Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester

                                               Beamish: Piano Concerto No. 3

                                               Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1

                                               Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

                                               Jonathan Biss –Piano

 

26 January                       Kfar Saba

                                      Haifa Symphony Orchestra

 

27, 28 January                  Haifa

                                      Haifa Symphony Orchestra

 

17 February                     Dresden, Semperoper      

                                      Sächsische Staatskapelle

                                               Wagner: Tannhäuser

                                               Further performances: 2, 10 March

 

28 February                     Stuttgart, Studio SWR

                                      SWR Symphony Orchestra        

                                               Dvorak: Serenade for String Orchestra e major op. 22

                                               Prokofjev: Violin concerto No. 1 d major

                                               Schumann: Symphony No. 4 d minor

                                               Hilary Hahn – Violin

 

1 March                           Freiburg, Konzerthaus

1. 28 February

 

3 March                           Mannheim, Kongresszentrum

1. 28 February

 

9 March                           Palermo, Teatro Massimo

                                      Orchestra del Teatro Massimo

                                               Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3

                                               Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky

                                               Daniel Petrica Ciobanu – Piano

                                               Katerina Seergeva - Mezzosoprano

 

21, 22 March                    Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie

                                      NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra

                                               Haydn: Symphony No. 80 d minor

Schnittke: Concerto grosso No.1 for 2 violins, cembalo,  prepared piano and strings

Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony

 

24 March, 16 & 18.30 Uhr    Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie

                                      NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra

Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony

 

28, 29 March                    Turin

                                      Orchestra RAI Turin

                                               Mozart: Mass in c minor

                                              

14, 15 April                       Dresden

                                               Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden

                                               Górecki: Amen for mixed choir a cappella op. 34

                                               Haydn: concerto for violoncello and Orchestra d major Hob. VIIb:2

                                               Haydn:  »Missa in angustiis« d minor Hob. XXII:11 »Nelson Mass«

                                               Sarah-Jane Brandon – Soprano; Katija Dragojevic – Mezzosoprano;

                                               Luis Gomes – Tenor; Milan Siljanov – Basso

                                               Steven Isserlis- Violoncello

                                              

27 April                            Dresden, Semperoper

                                      Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden

                                               Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier

                                               Further Performances: 30 April, 5 May

 

22 May                            Dresden, Semperoper

                                      Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden

                                               Mozart: Don Giovanni

                                               Further Performances: 26 May, 16, 20 June

 

25 May                            Dresden, Semperoper                Premiere

                                      Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden

                                               Verdi: Nabucco

                                               Further Performances: 28, 30 May, 5, 9, 15, 21 June

 

18 June                            Leipzig                                       Bach Fest Leipzig

                                      Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen

Bach: Kunst der Fuge – as new edits by various composers (world premiere)

                                               Mendelssohn: Christus op. 97

                                               Mendelssohn: “As the deer yearns” op. 42