Roland Böer (6 December 1970) is a German conductor with a focus on opera. He has worked at leading European opera houses, including the Oper Frankfurt where he began as répétiteur in 1996, was

Kapellmeister (, also , ) from German ''Kapelle'' (chapel) and ''Meister'' (master)'','' literally "master of the chapel choir" designates the leader of an ensemble of musicians. Originally used to refer to somebody in charge of music in a chapel, the term ha ...

from 2002 to 2008, and has often appeared as a guest. He was artistic director of the

Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte The (International Art Workshop) is an annual international summer school and musical festival for young singers, actors, musicians, conductors and composers. It was set up in Montepulciano, Italy, in 1976 by Hans Werner Henze. Several works recei ...

in Montepulciano from 2015 to 2020.

Life and career

Böer was born in

Bad Homburg Bad Homburg vor der Höhe () is the district town of the Hochtaunuskreis, Hesse, on the southern slope of the Taunus mountains. Bad Homburg is part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main Regional Authority, Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area. The town's offic ...

. He studied music at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg, with a focus on conducting with

Günther Wich Günther Wich (or Günter, born 23 May 1928) is a German conductor who was Generalmusikdirektor (GMD) of the Staatsoper Hannover, and for 17 years of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. He was professor of conducting at the Musikhochschule Würzburg. ...

. He was répétiteur at the Oper Frankfurt and musical director of the Kammeroper Frankfurt from 1996 to 1999. He then moved to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, where he also conducted. He was an assistant of Antonio Pappano in productions of the

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, La Monnaie in Brussels and the Royal Opera House in London. From 2002 to 2008, he was

at the Oper Frankfurt. He worked as a guest at opera houses of Europe, including Deutsche Oper Berlin, Komische Oper Berlin, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, at the English National Opera in London, the

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and Copenhagen Opera House, the Grand Theatre, Warsaw, the Hungarian State Opera House, Prague's State Opera, the Opéra national du Rhin, the Opéra de Nice, the Vienna Volksoper and the Opéra de Lyon. In 2018, he first conducted at the New National Theatre Tokyo. He collaborated with stage directors such ,

Christof Loy Christof Loy (born 5 December 1962) is a German stage director especially for opera, whose work received several awards. A freelance director, he has staged operas from Baroque to premieres of new works at major European opera houses and festivals. ...

, David McVicar,

Keith Warner Keith Warner (born 6 December 1956) is a British opera director, designer and translator. He is noted for his flamboyant stagings of Richard Wagner's operas. Early years Warner was born in London and went to Woodhouse School in Finchley, North Lon ...

and Stein Winge. His debut at

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in Milan, Mozart's '' Die Zauberflöte'', directed by William Kentridge, was recorded on DVD. Böer conducted concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Filarmonica della Scala, the orchestras of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Teatro Regio di Torino, the

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, Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, hr-Sinfonieorchester in Frankfurt, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the

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. Soloists included violinists Christian Tetzlaff, Janine Jansen,

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, Christel Lee and Julian Rachlin, cellists Heinrich Schiff,

Miklós Perényi Miklós Perényi (born 5 January 1948) is a Hungarian cellist. He was born in Budapest into a musical family and studied at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest with Ede Banda and Enrico Mainardi. He continued his studies at the Accademi ...

, Mischa Maisky and

Danjulo Ishizaka Danjulo Ishizaka (born 14 May 1979) is a German cellist and professor at the Berlin University of Arts and City of Basel Music Academy Life Ishizaka, born in Bonn, Germany, is the son of the German piano teacher Ruth Nathrath and Japanese im ...

, and pianists Claire-Marie Le Guay,

Mariangela Vacatello Mariangela Vacatello (born January 22, 1982) is an Italian classical concert pianist from Naples. Early life Vacatello comes from a musical family: her mother, Pina, was a pianist and now is a piano teacher and her father, Antonio, is a piano tun ...

and . He conducted chamber orchestras such as Ensemble Modern, Royal Northern Sinfonia, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.

Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte di Montepulciano

The festival

in Montepulciano was founded by Hans Werner Henze in 1976. Böer began as musical director in 2009 and was artistic director from 2015 to 2020. It earned him Montepulciano's award Grifo Poliziano, which includes honorary citizenship of the town.

Recordings

* Adagietto (Michiè Nakamaru, Philharmonia Orchestra), EMI, TOCE-55629 * Federico Ricci: Corrado d’Altamura (Dimitra Theodossiou, Dmitry Korchak, James Westman, Ann Taylor, Andrew Foster-Williams, Cora Burggraaf, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Philharmonia Orchestra), work's first recording, OperaRara, ORR246 * Alexander Glazunov: ''

Les Saisons ''Seasons'' (french: Les Saisons) is a 2015 French-German nature documentary film directed, produced, co-written, and narrated by Jacques Perrin, with Jacques Cluzaud as co-director. In Japanese, the film was narrated by Fumino Kimura and Shōfuku ...

'' / Robert Schumann: First Symphony in the revision by

Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler (; 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism ...

( Bamberger Symphoniker), archive production of BR * ''Voice 2015'': live recording of the four final concerts of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels (Orchestre de La Monnaie) * Mozart: '' Die Zauberflöte'' –

, directed by William Kentridge, stage design by Kentridge and Sabine Theunissen, ) OPUS ARTE, DVD / Blu-ray (OA 1066 D)

References

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