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 Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of Opera Naples (Florida) and Artistic Director of the Arantzazu Festival in Spain. He was previously Music Director of the Orquesta de Valencia, 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 2025/26 season, Tebar returns to the Teatro Colón with Werther, makes his debut at Opera Hong Kong with Aida, and conducts Turandot and L’Elisir d’amore at Opera Naples, where he serves as Music Director. He also returns to Cincinnati Opera with Carmen, to the Ópera de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria with L’Elisir d’amore, and makes his debut at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis with Roméo et Juliette. In the concert realm, he will appear again with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the latter with a program featuring Lang Lang. Further engagements take him to the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, and the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias. In addition, he makes his debuts with the Orchestra Filarmonica di Verona and the Orchestra Sinfonica di Cagliari, and leads the San Francisco Opera orchestra at the annual Adler Fellow Concert.
In past seasons, Tebar has conducted concerts with the Cincinnati Symphony, the Calgary Philharmonic, the Copenhagen Philharmonic, the Aarhus Symphony, the Norrlandsoperans Symfoniorkester, the Würth Philharmoniker, the Szczecin Philharmonic, and the Basque National Orchestra.
His previous operatic engagements included productions at the Vienna State Opera ( Madama Butterfly , La Bohème , Turandot , Don Pasquale ), at the Gran Teatre del Liceu ( L'Elisir d'amore ), at the Oper Frankfurt ( Francesca da Rimini ), at the Hamburg State Opera ( Don Pasquale ), at the Cincinnati Opera ( Carmen , Roméo et Juliette , Turandot ), at the Royal Opera Stockholm ( La Cenerentola ), at the Deutsche Oper Berlin ( Madama Butterfly ), at the Opéra national de Lorraine ( I Capuleti ei Montecchi ), at the Göteborgsoperan ( Tosca ), 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 ), at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari ( I Puritani ), at the Teatro Regio Torino ( L'Italiana in Algeri ), at the Teatro Villamarta ( Tosca ), at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City ( La Vida Breve by Falla, La Mulata de Córdoba by Moncayo), at the Palacio de la Ópera de A Coruña ( West Side Story , Un Ballo in Maschera ) and at the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo ( Carmen ).
Tebar has, among others, produced productions such as La Traviata , Aida , Nabucco , Don Carlo (Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía); 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 (Florida Grand Opera); and Aida , Turandot , The Magic Flute , Die Fledermaus , Don Pasquale , La Traviata , La Bohème , Così fan tutte , Maria de Buenos Aires , La Tragédie de Carmen , Haydn's L'isola disabitata and Daniel Catán's La Hija de Rappaccini (Opera Naples).
In addition to his operatic work, Ramón Tebar is in demand internationally as a guest conductor with renowned symphony orchestras. In Spain, he has conducted the Spanish National Orchestra several times, as well as numerous other orchestras in the country, including the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, the RTVE Orchestra in Madrid, the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, and the orchestras in Castilla y León, Córdoba, Galicia, Gran Canaria, Navarra, and Oviedo. Internationally, he has appeared with the Philharmonia Orchestra London, the Prague Philharmonia, the Het Gelders Orkest, the Malaysian Philharmonic, the Armenian Philharmonic, the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Rouen Normandie, the Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie Chemnitz, the Daejeon Philharmonic, the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, the Szczecin Philharmonic, the St. Petersburg Symphony, the San Antonio Symphony, and the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional del Perú. Tebar was also 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.
2025/26
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