22.02.2018
Roland Böer to conduct Mozart and Puccini
The acclaimed German maestro Roland Böer will take to our podium in early March to conduct operas by Puccini and Mozart.
Music aficionados know Böer as a conductor who has a particularly sensitive understanding of Mozart’s body of work. Our audiences witnessed this first hand at the start of the season, when Böer made his St. Petersburg debut at the helm of Die Zauberflöte. This time, he will first conduct Mozart. The Marriage of Figaro on 2 March, before returning to the theatre on 6 March to lead Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème.
Böer first conducted La Bohème in the Oper Frankfurt in 2005. The German press remarked on the maestro’s solid control of the orchestra. „He admits a certain severity to the sound, while at the same time subtly blending the melodic lines“, noted the Frankfurter Neue Presse. „The music starts to shimmer between shades of colour, bringing warmth to the cold emotional depths of Puccini’s masterpiece.“
Roland Böer began his musical career as an assistant to Antonio Pappano, one of the most famous and in-demand conductors of recent decades. Now, Böer works with leading European opera houses, including Teatro alla Scala, Théâtre de la Monnaie, Oper Frankfurt, Opéra de Nice, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the English National Opera, Komische Oper Berlin, and many others. This season, Roland Böer will appear regularly at the Mikhailovsky Theatre as a guest conductor.
Music aficionados know Böer as a conductor who has a particularly sensitive understanding of Mozart’s body of work. Our audiences witnessed this first hand at the start of the season, when Böer made his St. Petersburg debut at the helm of Die Zauberflöte. This time, he will first conduct Mozart. The Marriage of Figaro on 2 March, before returning to the theatre on 6 March to lead Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème.
Böer first conducted La Bohème in the Oper Frankfurt in 2005. The German press remarked on the maestro’s solid control of the orchestra. „He admits a certain severity to the sound, while at the same time subtly blending the melodic lines“, noted the Frankfurter Neue Presse. „The music starts to shimmer between shades of colour, bringing warmth to the cold emotional depths of Puccini’s masterpiece.“
Roland Böer began his musical career as an assistant to Antonio Pappano, one of the most famous and in-demand conductors of recent decades. Now, Böer works with leading European opera houses, including Teatro alla Scala, Théâtre de la Monnaie, Oper Frankfurt, Opéra de Nice, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the English National Opera, Komische Oper Berlin, and many others. This season, Roland Böer will appear regularly at the Mikhailovsky Theatre as a guest conductor.
