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 2026/2027
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA, NEW YORK CITY
Puccini – La Bohème
Sep 25/27, Oct 1/3/7/9/10/15/16/22/24/28/31
Mozart – Symphony No. 29
Strauss – Duet-Concertino
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 6
Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 20
Nov 6
Mozart – Symphony No. 29
Mozart – Piano Concerto
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 6
Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 20
Nov 7
CALGARY PHILHARMONIC
Mozart – Violin Concerto No. 5 with Maria Ioudenitch
Mahler – Symphony No. 5
Nov 20/21
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STUTTGART STATE OPERA
Rossini – La Cenerentola
Jan 10/12/25, Feb 16, Mar 28, Apr 1/13/26
OPÉRA ORCHESTRA NATIONAL MONTPELLIER
Maria Luisa de Borbon – Symphony No. 1 in D minor
Szymański – Violin Concerto
Ravel – Le Tombeau de Couperin
Massenet – Navarraise & Aragonaise from Le Cid
Turina – Danzas fantásticas, Op. 22
Jan 15 (Montpellier)/16 (Montpellier)/17 (Sète)CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Tchaikovsky – Romeo and Juliet overture fantasy
Bruckner – Symphony No. 4 (“Romantic”)
Feb 5/6COLORADO SYMPHONY
Weber – Oberon Overture
Saint-Saëns – Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
Feb 12/13/14COLORADO SPRINGS PHILHARMONIC
Brouwer – Pulse
Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No. 2
Copland – Symphony No. 3
May 22/23
Biography
Spanish conductor Ramón Tebar is currently Artistic and Music Director of Opera Naples in Florida and Artistic Director of Spain’s Arantzazu Festival. He was previously Music Director of the Orquesta de Valencia, Palm Beach Symphony and Santo Domingo Festival (Dominican Republic), Artistic Director of Florida Grand Opera and Principal Guest Conductor of Valencia’s Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía.
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In the 2026/27 season he makes his Metropolitan Opera debut with La bohème, debuts at Staatsoper Stuttgart with La Cenerentola and returns to the Ópera de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria for Lucia di Lammermoor. In concert, Tebar returns to the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic, Copenhagen Philharmonic and Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana. He also makes his debuts with the Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie, Colorado Symphony, Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Orchestra of the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki and Colorado Springs Philharmonic.
In summer 2026, Tebar made festival debuts at the Macerata Opera Festival with Carmina Burana and the Rossini Opera Festival conducting Stabat Mater. In recent seasons, he has conducted concerts with 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, Norrlandsoperans Symfoniorkester, the Würth Philharmoniker, the Szczecin Philharmonic and the Basque National Orchestra, among others. He has also made debuts with the Orchestra Filarmonica di Verona and Orchestra Sinfonica di Cagliari and returned to the San Francisco Opera Orchestra for the company’s annual Adler Fellow Concert.
Some of Tebar’s previous guest appearances in the opera pit include debuts at Opera Hong Kong (Aida) and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (Roméo et Juliette), and engagements at the Teatro Colón (Werther), 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), Cincinnati Opera (Carmen, Roméo et Juliette, Turandot, Madama Butterfly), Royal Swedish Opera (La Cenerentola), Deutsche Oper Berlin (Madama Butterfly), Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Madama Butterfly), Opéra national de Lorraine (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Gothenburg Opera (Tosca, Rigoletto), Savonlinna Festival (Carmen), Pamplona’s Baluarte Theater (Otello), Teatro Regio di Parma (Giovanna d’Arco), Ópera de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra, L’elisir d’amore), Teatro Lirico di Cagliari (I puritani), Teatro Regio Torino (L’italiana in Algeri, La traviata, Rigoletto), Teatro Villamarta (Tosca), Mexico City’s Palacio de Bellas Artes (Falla’s La vida breve and Moncayo’s La mulata de Córdoba), Palacio de la Ópera de A Coruña (Lucia di Lammermoor, Un ballo in maschera, La traviata) and Theatro Municipal de São Paulo (Carmen).
As a titled conductor Tebar has led productions of La traviata, Aida, Nabucco and Don Carlo at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, and 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 at Florida Grand Opera.
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, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Münchener Kammerorchester, 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 and San Antonio Symphony.
Tebar’s work can also be heard on recordings with Joseph Calleja and the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana on the DECCA label, with Gregory Kunde and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra on UNIVERSAL, and on DVD in Verdi’s Giovanna d’Arco for UNITEL.
2026/27
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