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 Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of Opera Naples and Artistic Director of Spain’s Arantzazu Festival. He was previously Music Director of the Orquesta de Valencia, Artistic Director of the Florida Grand Opera and Principal Guest Conductor of Valencia’s Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia.
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In the 2025/26 season he returns to the Teatro Colón for Werther, makes his debut at Opera Hong Kong with Aida, and conducts Turandot and L’Elisir d’amore at Opera Naples, where he is Music Director. He also returns to the Cincinnati Opera with Carmen, Opera de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria with L’Elisir d’amore, and makes his debut at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis with Roméo et Juliette. In concert, Tebar appears again with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic for a program featuring Lang Lang, the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, and the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias. He also makes his debuts with the Orchestra Filarmonica di Verona and the Orchestra Sinfonica di Cagliari, and leads the San Francisco Opera Orchestra in the company’s annual Adler Fellow Concert.
In recent seasons, Tebar has conducted concerts with the Cincinnati Symphony, the Calgary Philharmonic, the Copenhagen Philharmonic, Aarhus Symphony, Norrlandsoperans Symfoniorkester, the Würth Philharmoniker, the Szczecin Philharmonic and the Basque National Orchestra, among others.
Some of Tebar’s previous guest appearances in the opera pit include engagements at the Vienna State Opera (Madama Butterfly, La Bohème, Turandot, Don Pasquale), Gran Teatre del Liceu (L’Elisir d’Amore), Frankfurt Opera (Francesca da Rimini), Hamburg State Opera (Don Pasquale), the Cincinnati Opera (Carmen, Roméo et Juliette, Turandot), the Royal Swedish Opera (La Cenerentola), the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Madama Butterfly), the Opéra national de Lorraine (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), the Gothenburg Opera (Tosca), the Savonlinna Festival (Carmen), in Pamplona’s Baluarte Theater (Otello), the Teatro Regio di Parma (Giovanna d’Arco), the Ópera de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra), Teatro Lirico di Cagliari (I Puritani), Teatro Regio Torino (L’Italiana in Algeri), Teatro Villamarta (Tosca), Mexico City’s Palacio de Bellas Artes (Falla’s La Vida Breve and Moncayo’s La Mulata de Córdoba), the Palacio de la Ópera de A Coruña (West Side Story, Un Ballo in Maschera), and the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo (Carmen).
As a titled conductor Tebar has led productions of La Traviata, Aida, Nabucco, Don Carlo (Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia); 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 M.D. Levy’s Mourning Becomes Electra (Florida Grand Opera); Aida, Turandot, Die Zauberflöte, 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 career, Tebar is sought after as a guest conductor with symphonic orchestras around the world. He has conducted the Spanish National Orchestra several times, and further guested with many of Spain’s other orchestras including the Barcelona Symphony, RTVE Orchestra in Madrid, Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, and the orchestras in Castilla y León, Córdoba, Galicia, Gran Canaria, Navarra and Oviedo to name a few. Beyond Spain, Tebar has guest conducted such orchestras as the Philharmonia in London, Prague Philharmonia, Het Gelders Orkest, Malaysian Philharmonic, Armenian Philharmonic, Orchestre de l’Opéra de Rouen Normandie, Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie Chemnitz, Daejeon Philharmonic, Aalborg Symphony, Szczecin Philharmonic, St. Petersburg Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, and the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Perú. Tebar was also previously the 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 Sinfónica de Navarra on Universal.
2025/26
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