– Michael Tumelty, The Herald, 20 March 2006
Since the 2007/08 season, Walter Weller has held the post of Music Director of the Orchestre National de Belgique. He was Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (1992-1997) and is now their Conductor Emeritus; together they have made highly successful tours of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Weller is also Conductor Laureate to the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker and holds the position of Associate Director with the Orchestra of Valencia, Spain.
Weller regularly conducts major orchestras throughout the world and has worked with the London Symphony, Philharmonia, BBC Symphony and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras, Dresden Staatskapelle, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Orchestre de Paris, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and WDR Sinfonieorchester Cologne. Forthcoming highlights include concerts with the Göteborgs Symfoniker, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and a tour of Spain with the Orchestre National de Belgique.
Walter Weller's operatic engagements have included Der Fliegende Holländer at La Scala, Ariadne auf Naxos and Der Fliegende Holländer for English National Opera, a new production of Der Freischütz at Teatro Comunale, Bologna, a new production of Prince Igor for the Berlin Staatskapelle, and Fidelio and Der Rosenkavalier for Scottish Opera. In February 2004 he conducted a new production of Così fan tutte with Opera de Monte Carlo (directed by John Cox) and returned to the house for Der Rosenkavalier in 2006/07.
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