»Roland Böer elicits a maximum of tonal sensuality, conciseness and transparency from the score«
Klaus Kalchschmid, Süddeutsche Zeitung
Biography
Roland Böer has been General Music Director of the Nuremberg State Theatre and Chief Conductor of the Nuremberg State Philharmonic Orchestra since the 2023/24 season.
He has made guest appearances at leading international opera houses such as Teatro alla Scala, the Royal Opera House and English National Opera London, Deutsche Oper and Komische Oper Berlin, Opéra du Rhin Strasbourg, Vienna Volksoper, Royal Opera Houses Stockholm and Copenhagen, Polish State Opera Warsaw, Czech National Theatre Prague and New National Theatre Tokyo.
As a concert conductor, he has led the London Symphony and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestras, the Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the hr Symphony Orchestra and the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the Deutsche Radiophilharmonie.
From 2002 to 2008 he was Kapellmeister at the Oper Frankfurt. From 2009, Roland Böer led the Festival "Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte di Montepulciano" for twelve years, first as musical, then as artistic director, and was also Principal Guest Conductor of the Mikhailovsky Theatre St. Petersburg until 2019.
He has recorded with the Philharmonia Orchestra for EMI and OPERA RARA, with the Scottish Symphony Orchestra for the BBC and with the Bamberger Symphoniker for the Bayerischer Rundfunk, among others. Roland Böer's debut at the Teatro alla Scala with "The Magic Flute" in William Kentridge's production has been released on DVD by OPUS ARTE.
Roland Böer was awarded the Congregation Award RNCM Fellow by the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and is an honorary citizen of the city of Montepulciano.
Videos
Current Season
Nuremberg
During the current season, Roland Böer conducts e.g. the new production of Kaija Saariaho's opera Innocence (stage director: Daniel Herzog), Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz (in a co-production with the Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg), further performances of Der Rosenkavalier and West Side Story as well as series of symphony concerts.
You can find out more about all his projects, concerts and dates with the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg on the Nuremberg State Theater website at the following link:
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Rarities
Within his artistic activities, Roland Böer places particular emphasis on the performance of new, rarely performed, or unjustly forgotten works, as well as music with special repertoire value.
In the current season for example, Roland Böer is accompanying clarinetist Shelly Ezra to the Bergische Symphoniker, to breathe new life into Rudolf Arthur Roesel's Romantic Symphony.
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He is also taking on the musical direction of Hans Werner Henze's opera “La Piccola Cubana” at the Teatro Nazionale in Rome as part of the “Hans Werner Henze 100” project.
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