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. 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 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.
He also has conducted the Spanish National Orchestra several times and further guested with many of Spain’s other orchestras. 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