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 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 Sofia.

In the 2025–26 season he returns to 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 Cincinnati Opera for Carmen and to Opera de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria with L’elisir d’amore, and he debuts at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis with Roméo et Juliette. In concert, Tebar appears again with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic for a program featuring Lang Lang, Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra and Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias. He also debuts with the Orchestra Filarmonica di Verona and the Orchestra Sinfonica di Cagliari and returns to the San Francisco Opera Orchestra for the company’s annual Adler Fellow Concert.

In recent seasons, Tebar has conducted concerts with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic, Copenhagen Philharmonic, Aarhus Symphony, Norrlandsoperans Symfoniorkester, Würth Philharmoniker, Szczecin Philharmonic and Basque National Orchestra, among others.

Some of Tebar’s previous guest appearances in the opera pit include engagements with 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), 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, 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 symphony 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 and 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 orchestras such 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 with Giovanna d'Arco by Verdi for Unitel. ramon-tebar.com