Michael Boder was a German conductor of opera and concert who worked internationally.
23 Facts About Michael Boder
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Michael Boder 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.
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Michael Boder conducted regularly at the Vienna State Opera, including the world premieres of Cerha's Der Riese vom Steinfeld and Reimann's Medea.
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Michael Boder conducted the premieres of operas by Pascal Dusapin, Hans Werner Henze, Luca Lombardi, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Manfred Trojahn, among others.
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Michael Boder's father was an opera singer, who appeared in the title role of Alban Berg's Wozzeck often, and the boy was on stage in the role of his son.
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Michael Boder was an assistant to Michael Gielen at the Oper Frankfurt.
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Michael Boder became a regular guest conductor at the state operas of Dresden, Hamburg and Munich.
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Michael Boder conducted at the San Francisco Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
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Michael Boder was focused on contemporary music, in opera and in concert.
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Michael Boder contacted composers such as Reimann, Hans Werner Henze and Peter Eotvos, and discussed with them details of the music to be played, often played for the first time.
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Michael Boder made his debut at the Vienna State Opera on 15 December 1995, conducting Alban Berg's Wozzeck.
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Michael Boder conducted there Die Frau ohne Schatten and Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss, Berg's Lulu, Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg and Hindemith's Cardillac.
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Michael Boder conducted there the world premieres of Friedrich Cerha's Der Riese vom Steinfeld in 2002 and Aribert Reimann's Medea in 2010.
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Michael Boder's style was focused on transparency for musical structures, but he realised sensous sonorities even in complex music.
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Michael Boder conducted regularly at the Theater an der Wien, including the world premieres of Anno Schreier's Hamlet and Christian Jost's Egmont.
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Michael Boder conducted there new productions of Schubert's Lazarus, Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, and von Einem's Der Besuch der alten Dame.
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Michael Boder made his debut at the Royal Opera House conducting Verdi's Rigoletto in 1988; he conducted there the world premiere of Morgen und Abend by Georg Friedrich Haas, in a coproduction with the Staatsoper Berlin, in 2015.
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Michael Boder conducted the premiere of Pascal Dusapin's Faustus, the Last Night at the Staatsoper Berlin in a coproduction with Opera National de Lyon in 2006, and a reviewer noted that he "securely organised the sound architecture".
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Michael Boder returned to Zurich in 2013 to conduct Tri sestry by Peter Eotvos, a work requiring orchestras at different locations in the theatre.
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Michael Boder was the general music director of the Liceu in Barcelona from 2008 to 2012.
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Michael Boder was chief conductor of the Royal Danish Theatre to 2016.
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Michael Boder 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.
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Michael Boder died suddenly in Vienna on 7 April 2024, at the age of 65.