Roland Böer
Conductor
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Roland Böer is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he was Kapellmeister from 2002 – 2008 and recently returned for the previous revival of Handel's Xerxes, Berlioz’ La damnation de Faust, and Handel's Amadigi. He takes up the posts of Chief Conductor of the Staat Philharmonie and General Music Director of the Staatstheater in Nürnberg from the beginning of the 2013/24 season. He was named music director of the Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte di Montepulciano in 2009, where he was artistic director from 2015 – 2020, and was first conductor at the Mikhailovsky Theater in Saint Petersburg until 2019. Operatic and concert engagements have taken him to places including La Scala Milan, the Royal Opera House and English National Opera London, the Deutsche and Komische Oper Berlin, the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, the opera houses in Stockholm and Copenhagen, Rome, Florence and Turin, Strasbourg and Lyon, the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw, the State Opera in Prague and New National Theatre in Tokyo. He also enjoyed a close relationship with the Opéra de Nice for many years. Orchestras with whom he has worked have included the London Symphony and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the hr(Hessen Radio)-Sinfonieorchester and Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia and Maggio Musicale Fiorentino orchestras. He made his successful debut at the 2019 Tirol Festival in Erl, where he is a regular guest, and with the Teatro Carlo Felice's orchestra and chorus at the 2021 Nervi Music Ballet Festival in Genoa. His many recordings include his debut at La Scala Milan - Die Zauberflöte directed by William Kentridge (available on DVD - Opus Arte). He received a RNCM Congregation Fellow Award from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and is a Montepulciano Honorary Citizen.