Omer Meir Wellber
Conductor
Omer Meir Wellberwas born in Be’er Sheva in 1981 and is regarded today as one of Israel’s most talented young conductors. Since 2011 he has been General Music Director of the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia succeeding Lorin Maazel. He is not only a regular guest conductor at the Israeli Opera, but has also been, since 2009, the Music Director of the Raanana Symphonette Orchestra Israel. Wellber, who now lives in Italy, also appears regularly at the opera houses in Berlin, Dresden, Vienna, Venice, Milan and Verona.
Between 2008 and 2010 he assisted Daniel Barenboim at the Berliner Staatsoper Unter den Linden and at La Scala in Milan. To great public and critical acclaim he conducted Aida when La Scala performed at the Israeli Opera. This was followed by Bizet’s Carmen at the Staatsoper Berlin, a new production of Strauss’s Daphne received with great applause at the Semperoper in Dresden, Puccini’s Tosca at the Berliner Staatsoper, and symphony concerts in Verona and at La Fenice in Venice. During the 2011/2012 season he conducted Verdi’s Rigoletto to open a three-year project with the trilogia popolare at the Vienna Festival, La Traviata at the Berliner Staatsoper, Tosca in Valencia, Carmen and L’Elisir d’Amore in Venice, La Traviata at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and various symphony concerts with the Orchestre de Paris, the Filarmonica della Scala, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of the RAI Turin, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the NDR Radiophilharmonie in Hannover, and the hr-Sinfonieorchester in Frankfurt. Following Verdi’s Macbeth in Verona, and Rigoletto, Il Barbiere di Siviglia and I due Foscari with Plácido Domingo in Valencia, his further engagements include premieres of Verdi’s Il Trovatore at the Vienna Festival, Verdi’s Otello in Tel Aviv, Così fan tutte to open a Mozart/Da Ponte trilogy in Dresden, where he has more engagements in the future, and some symphony concerts with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome.
Omer Meir Wellber can be heard on DVD in Mariusz Trelinski’s production of Eugene Onegin in Valencia (C Major). He is engaged in educational activities for young musicians and is an Ambassador for the humanitarian non for profit international organization Save a child’s heart, headquartered in Israel.
IMG Artists
After his debut at the Teatro Filarmonico di Verona for the 2009 Symphonic Season he returned in 2012 with Verdi’s Macbeth and the Gala ConcertAspettando il 2013; in 2013 he conducted Donizetti’s Don Pasquale and the Gala concert of 31st December Goodbye 2013.
He returned for the 2014-2015 Symphonic Season to conduct the first performance at the Teatro Ristori and the seventh concert at the Teatro Filarmonico.
At the Arena di Verona he debuted in 2013 conducting the Fura dels Baus’ staging of Aida.
He returns for the 2015 Festival to conduct Aida directed by Franco Zeffirelli and the Carmen Gala Concert.