Roland Böer

He worked as a guest at opera houses of Europe, including Deutsche Oper Berlin, Komische Oper Berlin, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, at the English National Opera in London, the Royal Swedish Opera and Copenhagen Opera House, the Grand Theatre, Warsaw, the Hungarian State Opera House, Prague's State Opera, the Opéra national du Rhin, the Opéra de Nice, the Vienna Volksoper and the Opéra de Lyon. In 2018, he first conducted at the New National Theatre Tokyo. He collaborated with stage directors such Tilman Knabe [de], Christof Loy, David McVicar, Keith Warner and Stein Winge. His debut at La Scala in Milan, Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, directed by William Kentridge, was recorded on DVD.

Böer was born in Bad Homburg. He studied music at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg, with a focus on conducting with Günther Wich. He was répétiteur at the Oper Frankfurt and musical director of the Kammeroper Frankfurt from 1996 to 1999. He then moved to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, where he also conducted. He was an assistant of Antonio Pappano in productions of the Bayreuth Festival, La Monnaie in Brussels and the Royal Opera House in London. From 2002 to 2008, he was Kapellmeister at the Oper Frankfurt.

The festival Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte in Montepulciano was founded by Hans Werner Henze in 1976. Böer began as musical director in 2009 and was artistic director from 2015 to 2020. It earned him Montepulciano's award Grifo Poliziano, which includes honorary citizenship of the town.

Roland Böer (6 December 1970) is a German conductor with a focus on opera. He has worked at leading European opera houses, including the Oper Frankfurt where he began as répétiteur in 1996, was Kapellmeister from 2002 to 2008, and has often appeared as a guest. He was artistic director of the Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte in Montepulciano from 2015 to 2020.