Just in: Hamburg names Israeli music director
OperaThe next GMD of Hamburg State Opera is to be the Israeli Omer Meir Wellber, presently chief of Vienna’s volksoper.
He starts in Hamburg in autumn 2025 and will maintain both jobs for two years, leaving Vienna in 2027.
Wellber was previously music director of the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester, until an abrupt disagreement with its management.
In Hamburg, he succeeds Kent Nagano.
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