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 the Orquesta de Valencia, artistic director of the Florida Grand Opera and principal guest conductor of Valencia’s Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia.
In the 2024–25 season he returns to the San Francisco Opera and Hamburg State Opera for La bohème, Ópera de Tenerife for Madama Butterfly, Florida Grand Opera for Carmen and Cincinnati Opera for Tosca. This season, he will also return to the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic, Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico and Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa for symphonic concerts.
In recent seasons, Tebar has conducted concerts with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic, Copenhagen Philharmonic, Aarhus Symphony, Norrlandsoperan Syfoniorkester, Würth Philharmoniker, Szczecin Philharmonic and Basque National Orchestra, among others.
Some of Tebar’s previous guest appearances in the opera pit include engagements at the Vienna State Opera (Madame 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), Royal Swedish Opera (La cenerentola), Deutsche Oper Berlin (Madama Butterfly), Opéra national de Lorraine (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Gothenburg Opera (Tosca), 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), 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 (West Side Story, Un ballo in maschera), 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 Sofía); Madama Butterfly, La bohème, Florencia en el Amazonas, Carmen, Un ballo in maschera, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Don Pasquale, Cosí fan tutte, Lucia di Lammermoor, La sonnambula, Thaïs, La rondine and M.D. Levy’s Mourning Becomes Electra (Florida Grand Opera); and Aida, Turandot, Die Zauberflöte, Die Fledermaus, Don Pasquale, La traviata, La bohème, Cosí fan tutte, Maria de Buenos Aires, La tragedie 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 symphonic orchestras around the world. He has conducted the Spanish National Orchestra several times, and he 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, as well as the orchestras of Castilla y Léon, Córdoba, Galicia, Gran Canaria, Navarra and Oviedo, to name a few. Beyond Spain, Tebar has guest conducted such orchestras as the Philharmonia in London, Prague Philharmonia, 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, San Antonio Symphony and the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Perú. Tebar was also previously the artistic director of the Santo Domingo Music Festival in Puerto Rico.
Tebar’s work can also be heard on recordings with Joseph Calleja and the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana on the Decca label and with Gregory Kunde and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra on Universal.