Ramón Tebar

Spanish Conductor Ramón Tebar is currently Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of Opera Naples and Artistic Director of Spain’s Arantzazu Festival. He was previously Music Director of the Orquesta de Valencia, Artistic Director of the Florida Grand Opera and Principal Guest Conductor of Valencia’s Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia.

In the 2024/25 season he will return to the San Francisco Opera and the Hamburg State Opera with La Bohème, the Ópera de Tenerife with Madama Butterfly, the Florida Grand Opera with Carmen, and to the Cincinnati Opera with Tosca. This season he will also return to the Cincinnati Symphony, the Calgary Philharmonic, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico, the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa for symphonic concerts.

In recent seasons, Tebar has conducted concerts with the Cincinnati Symphony, the Calgary Philharmonic, the Copenhagen Philharmonic, Aarhus Symphony, Norrlandsoperans Syfoniorkester, the Würth Philharmoniker, the Szczecin Philharmonic and the Basque National Orchestra, among others.

Some of Tebar’s previous guest appearances in the opera pit include engagements at the Vienna State Opera (Madame Butterfly, La Bohème, Turandot, Don Pasquale), Gran Teatre del Liceu (L’Elisir d’Amore), Frankfurt Opera (Francesca da Rimini), Hamburg State Opera (Don Pasquale), the Cincinnati Opera (Carmen, Roméo et Juliette, Turandot), the Royal Swedish Opera (La Cenerentola), the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Madame Butterfly), the Opéra national de Lorraine (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), the Gothenburg Opera (Tosca), the Savonlinna Festival (Carmen), in Pamplona’s Baluarte Theater (Otello), the Teatro Regio di Parma (Giovanna d’Arco), the Ópera de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra), Teatro Lirico di Cagliari (I Puritani), Teatro Regio Torino (L’Italiana in Algeri), Teatro Villamarta (Tosca), Mexico City’s Palacio Bellas Artes (Falla’s La Vida Breve and Moncayo’s La Mulata de Cordoba), the Palacio de la Ópera de a Coruña (West Side Story, Un Ballo in Maschera), and the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo (Carmen).

As a titled conductor Tebar has led productions of La Traviata, Aida, Nabucco, Don Carlo (Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia); Madama Butterfly, La Bohème, Florencia en el Amazonas, Carmen, Un Ballo in Maschera, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Don Pasquale, Cosí Fan Tutte, Lucia di Lammermoor, La Sonnambula, Thaïs, La Rondine and M.D. Levy’s Mourning Becomes Electra (Florida Grand Opera); Aida, Turandot, Die Zauberflöte, Die Fledermaus, Don Pasquale, La Traviata, La Bohème, Cosí Fan Tutte, Maria de Buenos Aires, La Tragedie de Carmen, Haydn’s L’isola disabitata, and Daniel Catáns La Hija de Rappaccini (Opera Naples).

In addition to his operatic career, Tebar is sought after as a guest conductor with symphonic orchestras around the world. He has conducted the Spanish National Orchestra several times, and further guested with many of Spain’s other orchestras including the Barcelona Symphony, RTVE Orchestra in Madrid, Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, and the orchestras in Castilla y Léon, Cordoba, Galicia, Gran Canaria, Navarra and Oviedo to name a few. Beyond Spain, Tebar has guest conducted such orchestras as the Philharmonia in London, Prague Philharmonia, Het Gelders Orkest, Malaysian Philharmonic, Armenian Philharmonic, Orchestre de l’Opéra de Rouen Normandie, Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie Chemnitz, Daejong Philharmonic, Aalborg Symphony, Szczecin Philharmonic, St. Petersburg Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, and the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Perú. Tebar was also previously the Artistic Director of the Santo Domingo Music Festival in Puerto Rico.

Tebar’s work can also be heard on recordings with Joseph Calleja and the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana on the DECCA label, and with Gregory Kunde and the Orquesta Sinfonica de Navarra on Universal.

2024/25

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