Ramón Tebar
Cincinnati May Festival - Verdi Requiem
Verdi's Requiem a powerful opening to May Festival Powerful. Heartful. Extraordinary… An unforgettable evening .
Bizjournals (May 18, 2025)San Francisco Opera - La Bohème
La bohème hits all the right notes at San Francisco Opera
Major credit goes to the … supple, expressive conducting by Spanish maestro Ramón Tebar, who fashioned a memorable Elixir of Love here in 2023.
Seen and Heard (June 05, 2025)
Season 25/26 and Highlights
CALGARY PHILHARMONIC
Martin, M.E. – Vortex Cantabilis
Bartók – Piano Concerto No. 3
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 4
Sep 27
OPERA HONG KONG
Verdi - Aida
Oct 9/10/11/12
BILBAO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Mahler - Songs of a Wayfarer
Rachmaninoff - Symphony No. 1
Oct 16/17
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SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ORCHESTRA
Adler Fellows Concert
Nov 21
ORQUESTA SINFÓNICA PRINCIPADO DE ASTURIAS
Jan 22/23
OPERATION OF LAS PALMAS
Donizetti - L'elisir d'amore
Feb 24/26/28
OPERA NAPLES
Puccini - Turandot
March 11/13
Donizetti - L'elisir d'amore
March 12/14
CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Brouwer, M. – Pulse
Bruch – Scottish Fantasy
Rachmaninoff – Symphony No. 2
Apr 11/12
AARHUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Wagner – Tannhäuser Overture
Wagner – Wesendonck Songs
Beethoven – Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral"
May 7/8
OPERA THEATRE OF SAINT LOUIS
Gounod – Romeo and Juliet
June 13/17/19/21/25/27
CINCINNATI OPERA
Bizet – Carmen
July 25/29/31, August 2
Biography
Spanish conductor Ramón Tebar is currently Artistic and Music Director of Opera Naples in Florida and Artistic Director of the Spanish Arantzazu Festival. Previously, he was Music Director of the Orquesta de Valencia, the Palm Beach Symphony, and the Santo Domingo Festival (Dominican Republic), Artistic Director of Florida Grand Opera, and Principal Guest Conductor of the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia.
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In the 2026/27 season, he will make his debut at the Metropolitan Opera with La bohème, debut at the Stuttgart State Opera with La Cenerentola, and return to the Ópera de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria for Lucia di Lammermoor. concert version Tebar returns to the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic, the Copenhagen Philharmonic, and the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana. He also makes his debuts with the Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie, the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, the Orchestra of the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki, and the Colorado Springs Philharmonic.
In the summer of 2026, Tebar made his festival debuts at the Macerata Opera Festival with Carmina Burana and at the Rossini Opera Festival with Stabat Mater. In recent seasons, he has conducted concerts with, among others, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic, the Copenhagen Philharmonic, the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias, the Norrlandsoperans Symfoniorkester, the Würth Philharmoniker, the Szczecin Philharmonic, and the Basque National Orchestra. He has also made his debuts with the Orchestra Filarmonica di Verona and the Orchestra Sinfonica di Cagliari, and returned to the San Francisco Opera Orchestra for the annual Adler Fellow Concert.
Tebar's previous guest conducting engagements in the opera field include debuts at the Hong Kong Opera ( Aida ) and the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis ( Roméo et Juliette ), as well as engagements at the Teatro Colón ( Werther ), the Vienna State Opera ( Madama Butterfly , La bohème , Turandot , Don Pasquale ), the Gran Teatre del Liceu ( L'elisir d'amore ), and the Oper Frankfurt ( Francesca da Rimini ), at the Hamburg State Opera ( Don Pasquale ), at the Cincinnati Opera ( Carmen , Roméo et Juliette , Turandot , Madama Butterfly ), at the Royal Opera Stockholm ( La Cenerentola ), at the Deutsche Oper Berlin ( Madama Butterfly ), at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein ( Madama Butterfly ), at the Opéra national de Lorraine ( I Capuleti ei Montecchi ), at the Gothenburg Opera ( Tosca , Rigoletto ), at the Savonlinna Festival ( Carmen ), at the Teatro Baluarte in Pamplona ( Otello ), at the Teatro Regio di Parma ( Giovanna d'Arco ), at the Ópera de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria ( Rigoletto , Simon Boccanegra , L'elisir d'amore ), at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari ( I puritani ), at the Teatro Regio Torino ( L'italiana in Algeri , La traviata , Rigoletto ), at the Teatro Villamarta ( Tosca ), at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City (Falla's La vida breve and Moncayo's La mulata de Córdoba ), at the Palacio de la Ópera in A Coruña ( Lucia di Lammermoor , Un ballo in maschera , La traviata ) and at the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo ( Carmen ).
As a committed conductor, Tebar has led, among others, productions of La traviata , Aida , Nabucco and Don Carlo at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía as well as Madama Butterfly , La bohème , Florencia en el Amazonas , Carmen , Un ballo in maschera , Il barbiere di Siviglia , Don Pasquale , Così fan tutte , Lucia di Lammermoor , La sonnambula , Thaïs , La rondine and MD Levy's Mourning Becomes Electra at the Florida Grand Opera.
In addition to his operatic work, Tebar is an internationally sought-after concert conductor. He has collaborated on several occasions with the Spanish National Orchestra and many other Spanish orchestras, including the Barcelona Symphony, the RTVE Orchestra Madrid, the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, and the orchestras of Castilla y León, Córdoba, Galicia, Gran Canaria, Navarre, and Oviedo. Furthermore, he has conducted, among others, the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, the Prague Philharmonia, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, Het Gelders Orkest, the Malaysian Philharmonic, the Armenian Philharmonic, the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen Normandie, the Robert Schumann Philharmonic Chemnitz, the Daejeon Philharmonic, the Aalborg Symphony, the Szczecin Philharmonic, the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, and the San Antonio Symphony.
His work is also documented on recordings with Joseph Calleja and the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana on DECCA, with Gregory Kunde and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra on UNIVERSAL, and on DVD with Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco for UNITEL.
2026/27
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