The 2026 Klassik Open Air was a huge success. The Nuremberg State Philharmonic gave a magnificent concert.
The Nuremberg State Philharmonic is the largest orchestra in the metropolitan region and the second-largest opera and concert
orchestra in Bavaria.
Over the past few decades, the orchestra has been led by General Music Directors Hans Gierster, Christian Thielemann,
Eberhard Kloke, Philippe Auguin, Christof Prick, Marcus Bosch, and Joana Mallwitz. Since the 2023–2024 season, Roland Böer
has served as General Music Director of the Nuremberg State Theater and leads the orchestra.
With 150 opera and ballet performances, the orchestra also presents its own concert series, the Philharmonic Concerts,
at the Meistersingerhalle. In addition, there are numerous special projects and eight chamber concerts, which are initiated by the Friends
of the Orchestra and organized by the orchestra’s members.
Since 1999, the State Philharmonic, in cooperation with the City of Nuremberg’s Department of Culture, has
been organizing what has since become Europe’s largest open-air classical music festival. Through its concerts for children and young
people, the orchestra reaches and inspires a large number of new, young concertgoers.
What a celebration for all ages! At the family concert in Luitpoldhain, the Nuremberg State Philharmonic, under the theme
“Summer Festival in the Park,” uses music to show what a celebration sounds like. Claude Debussy captures the excited atmosphere
of the morning, Edward Elgar portrays the various guests, and Edvard Grieg sets the stage for dancing—until, by the end, everyone is
tapping their feet in high spirits. While General Music Director Roland Böer conducts the orchestra, music theater educator Philipp Roosz
playfully guides the audience through
Norbert Nagel (*1960)
Classic Open Air Fanfare
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Le matin d’un jour de fête
Excerpt from *Ibéria*
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Enigma Variations
Excerpts
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Wedding Day at Troldhaugen (arr. Breuer)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Pomp and Circumstances
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Roland Böer has been General Music Director of the Nuremberg State Theater and Principal Conductor of the Nuremberg
State Philharmonic since the 2023–24 season.
He has appeared as a guest conductor at leading international opera houses such as La Scala, the Royal Opera House, and the
English National Opera in London, as well as the Deutsche Oper and the Komische Oper in Berlin. As a concert conductor,
he has led renowned orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the hr-Sinfonieorchester,
and the Deutsche Radiophilharmonie.
From 2002 to 2008, he served as music director at the Frankfurt Opera. Beginning in 2009, he directed the
“Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte di Montepulciano” festival for over twelve years and served as principal guest conductor of
the Mikhailovsky Theater in St. Petersburg until 2019. He has made recordings with the Philharmonia Orchestra and
the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, among others. Roland Böer was honored by the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester
with the Congregation Award RNCM Fellow and is an honorary citizen of the city of Montepulciano.
Since 2018, Philipp Roosz has been hosting and producing the State Philharmonic’s concerts for children and young people
at the Nuremberg State Theater, in collaboration with dramaturg Wiebke Hetmanek.
As a music theater educator, he offers outreach programs for the entire community and directs the children’s and
youth opera choir, as well as a choir group at UNISONO at the Nuremberg Music School. Even while studying music
in Stuttgart, Roosz worked as an educator at institutions such as the International Bach Academy and the Junge Oper Stuttgart.
Most recently, he hosted family concerts with the chamber choir figure humaine, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, and
at the National Theater in Mannheim—and for the past five years, he has been welcoming audiences of all ages to the
Klassik Open Air in the mornings.
Sincerely, Susanne Panhans
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