Michael Boder

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Michael Boder
Basel Opera
  • Liceu
  • Royal Danish Theatre

    • Michael Boder (9 November 1958 – 7 April 2024) was a German conductor of opera and concert who worked internationally. He was music director of the

    Basel Opera from 1989 to 1993, of the Liceu in Barcelona from 2008 to 2012, and principal conductor of the Royal Danish Theatre to 2016. 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, Hans Werner Henze, Luca Lombardi, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Manfred Trojahn
    , among others.

    Career

    Boder was born in

    Opernhaus Zürich Aribert Reimann's Lear, directed by Harry Kupfer.[2]

    Shortly afterwards, with the 1988/89 season, Boder became music director of the

    Hamburg and Munich. He also conducted at the San Francisco Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He was focused on contemporary music, in opera and also in concert.[6] He contacted composers such as Reimann, Hans Werner Henze and Péter Eötvös, and discussed with them details of the music to be played, often played for the first time.[2]

    Boder made his debut at the Vienna State Opera on 15 December 1995, conducting Alban Berg's Wozzeck. He conducted there also Die Frau ohne Schatten and Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss, Berg's Lulu, Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Hindemith's Cardillac.[6] The first scenic production of Schönberg's Die Jakobsleiter was coupled with Puccini's Gianni Schicchi.[4] He conducted there the world premieres of Friedrich Cerha's Der Riese vom Steinfeld in 2002 and Aribert Reimann's Medea in 2010.[5][6] The Medea production, with Marlis Petersen in the title role, was filmed for DVD.[7] Boder's style was focused on transparency for musical structures, but he also realised sensous sonorities even in complex music.[5] His version of Elektra was described as a "nervously twitching soul document of a threatening family constellation" with brief idyllic moments of light.[5]

    He conducted regularly at the Theater an der Wien, including the world premieres of Anno Schreier's Hamlet and Christian Jost's Egmont.[5] He conducted there new productions of Schubert's Lazarus, Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, and von Einem's Der Besuch der alten Dame.[3]

    Boder made his debut at the

    Staatsoper Berlin, in 2015.[9] 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 Staatsoper Berlin.[6] In 1996, he conducted the German premiere of Enescu's Œdipe in a production shown at several houses.[4] He conducted the premiere of Pascal Dusapin's Faustus, the Last Night at the Staatsoper Berlin in a coproduction with Opéra National de Lyon in 2006, and a reviewer noted that he "securely organised the sound architecture".[10] He returned to Zürich in 2013 to conduct Tri sestry by Péter Eötvös, a work requiring orchestras at different locations in the theatre.[2]

    Boder was the general music director (GMD) of the Liceu in Barcelona from 2008 to 2012. He was subsequently chief conductor of the Royal Danish Theatre to 2016.[3][5]

    He was engaged in a project to commemorate Arnold Schoenberg in his 150th year of birth, with a concert at the Theater an der Wien planned on 26 April 2024, played by Klangforum Wien.[1][3]

    Boder died suddenly in Vienna on 7 April 2024, at the age of 65.[1][3][5] Stefan Herheim, director of the Vienna State Opera, said in memory of their first interaction for Berg's Lulu: "I got to know Michael as an artist whose satisfaction depended on whether he managed to get the best out of his counterpart fetch".[3]

    References

    1. ^ a b c "Dirigent Michael Boder in Wien verstorben". Die Presse. 8 April 2024. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
    2. ^ a b c d e f Hagmann, Peter (9 March 2013). "Michael Boder" (in German). Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
    3. ^ a b c d e f g "German Conductor Michael Boder has Died, Aged 65". The Violin Channel. 10 April 2024. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
    4. ^ a b c "Spektrum von Mozart bis zu Zeitgenössischem" (in German). ORF. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
    5. ^ a b c d e f g Tošić, Ljubiša (8 April 2024). "Deutscher Dirigent Michael Boder unerwartet gestorben". Der Standard (in German). Retrieved 10 April 2024.
    6. ^ a b c d e "Die Wiener Staatsoper trauert um Michael Boder" (in German). Vienna State Opera. 8 April 2024. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
    7. ^ Whittall, Arnold (8 April 2011). "Reimann Medea". Gramophone. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
    8. ^ "Rigoletto". Royal Opera House. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
    9. ^ Ashley, Tim (15 November 2015). ""Morgen und Abend" review – birth, death and the longueurs in between". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
    10. ^ Kühn, Georg-Friedrich (22 January 2006). "Pascal Dusapins "Faustus, the last night" / Uraufführung an der Berliner Lindenoper" (in German). Deutschlandfunk. Retrieved 23 July 2017.

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    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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