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Michael Boder
Born(1958-11-09)9 November 1958
Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
Died7 April 2024(2024-04-07) (aged 65)
Vienna, Austria
EducationMusikhochschule Hamburg
OccupationOperatic conductor
Organizations

Michael Boder (9 November 1958 – 7 April 2024) was a German conductor of opera and concert who worked internationally. The chief conductor of the Royal Danish Theatre, he conducted regularly at the Vienna State Opera, including the world premieres of Cerha's Der Riese vom Steinfeld and Reimann's Medea. He also conducted the premieres of operas by Pascal Dusapin, George Enescu, Hans Werner Henze, Luca Lombardi, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Manfred Trojahn.

Career

Born in Darmstadt on 9 November 1958, Boder studied first at the Musikhochschule Hamburg, then in Florence where he worked with Riccardo Muti and Zubin Mehta. He was an assistant to Michael Gielen at the Oper Frankfurt.[1][2][3]

Boder was chief conductor of the Basel Opera from 1989 to 1993.[4][5] In 1991, he conducted in Basel the world premiere of Luca Lombardi's Faust. Un travestimento. He became a regular guest conductor at the state operas of Berlin, Dresden, Hamburg and Munich. He also conducted at the San Francisco Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Zürich Opera. He was focused on contemporary music, in opera and also in concert.[5]

Boder made his debut at the Vienna State Opera on 15 December 1995, conducting Alban Berg's Wozzeck. He conducted there also Elektra, Die Frau ohne Schatten and Ariadne auf Naxos, all by Richard Strauss, Schönberg's Die Jakobsleiter, Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, Berg's Lulu, Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Hindemith's Cardillac,[5] and the world premieres of Friedrich Cerha's Der Riese vom Steinfeld in 2002 and Aribert Reimann's Medea in 2010.[4][5]

Boder made his debut at the Royal Opera House conducting Verdi's Rigoletto. He conducted there the world premiere of Morgen und Abend by Georg Friedrich Haas.[6] Other operatic premieres were in 1991 Penderecki's Ubu Rex for the opening of the Munich Opera Festival, in 1992 Reimann's Das Schloß, in 1998 Manfred Trojahn's Was ihr wollt at the Bavarian State Opera, and in 2007 Henze's Phaedra at the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden.[5] In 1996, he conducted the German premiere of Enescu's Œdipe in a production shown at several houses.[1] He conducted the premiere of Pascal Dusapin's Faustus, the Last Night at the Staatsoper Berlin.[6]

Boder was the general music director (GMD) of the Liceu in Barcelona from 2008 to 2012. He was subsequently was chief conductor of the Royal Danish Theatre from 2012[5] to 2016.

Boder died in Vienna on 7 April 2024, at the age of 65.[4][7]

Reference

  1. ^ a b "Spektrum von Mozart bis zu Zeitgenössischem" (in German). ORF. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  2. ^ "Michael Boder" (in German). Deutsche Oper Berlin. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  3. ^ Hagner, Peter (9 March 2013). "Michael Boder" (in German). Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  4. ^ a b c Tošić, Ljubiša (8 April 2024). "Deutscher Dirigent Michael Boder unerwartet gestorben". Der Standard (in German). Retrieved 10 April 2024.
  5. ^ a b c d e f "Michael Boder". Vienna State Opera. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  6. ^ a b "Michael Boder". Royal Opera House. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  7. ^ "Dirigent Michael Boder in Wien verstorben". Die Presse. 2024-04-08. Retrieved 2024-04-10.
Cultural offices
Preceded by Music Director, Gran Teatre del Liceu
2008–2012 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Principal Conductor, Royal Danish Orchestra
2012–2016 		Succeeded by
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