Michael Boder
German conductor of opera and concert (1958–2024)
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 Darmstadt on 9 November 1958. His 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. Boder studied first at the Musikhochschule Hamburg, then in Florence where he worked with Riccardo Muti and Zubin Mehta. He was an assistant to Michael Gielen at the Oper Frankfurt. In 1988, during this time, he conducted at the Opernhaus Zürich Aribert Reimann's Lear, directed by Harry Kupfer.
Shortly afterwards, with the 1988/89 season, Boder became music director of the Basel Opera, serving until 1993.
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