Death of the conductor Michael Boder
Conductor Michael Boder, chief conductor of the Basel Opera from 1989 to 1993, died unexpectedly in Vienna at the age of 65.
Michael Boder, born in Darmstadt in 1958, began his career as assistant to Michael Gielen at the Frankfurt Opera. From 2008 to 2012, he was music director at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, and from 2012 to 2016, he was chief conductor of the Royal Danish Theater and the Royal Copenhagen Orchestra. He is considered a specialist in 20th and 21st century music and has conducted world premieres of works by Georg Friedrich Haas, Friedrich Cerha, Hans Werner Henze, Krzysztof Penderecki, Manfred Trojahn and Aribert Reimann, among others.
