“With Omer Meir Wellber at the podium, the Staatskapelle achieved a dynamic high with brilliant highlights.”

Yediot Aharonot
AMIR MENDEL

The Israeli Opera is presenting Otello as part of the celebrations marking the 200th anniversary of Verdi’s birth, and succeeds completely in delighting and thrilling its audience. […] The great achievement of the evening belonged to the conductor. Omer M. Wellber is a young conductor, but in the past years he has accumulated many hours of experience with Verdi, and this familiarity could be sensed throughout the production. In every operatic production, one of the major issues is the balance between the soloists, the producer’s power, and the conductor’s authority. The one whose influence could be seen at all times in the superb musical rhythm and in the formation of the orchestra’s dramatic power, was the conductor.”

GERHARD HOFFMAN

Musikalischer Impulsgeber dieser vorzüglichen Wiedergabe war der junge, israelische Dirigent Omer Meir Wellber, welcher vom Pult aus die Bühne regelrecht unter Strom setzte. 
Geschmeidig, rhythmisch pointiert bestimmte der Maestro den Klangduktus des akurat, spritzig, federleicht musizierenden Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchesters, dass es eine Wonne war zu lauschen und ließ bei allen Tempi, den Sängern dennoch Raum zum Atmen, zur Entfaltung der Gefühle. Man sollte diesen aufstrebenden Könner mit weiteren Aufgaben betreuen!

Berliner Morgenpost
KLAUS GEITEL

After the interval the ambitious Wellber conducted Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony in penetrating fashion, working his orchestra up, time and again, into veritable ecstasies of expression. These alternated occasionally with the indifferent and casual. As a result, the performance was a fluctuation of hot and cold emotions just as Mahler might have imagined in his early years.

Klassik.com, July 28, 2012
DR. DANIEL KRAUSE

On the evening of July 27, we were treated to an extremely impressive performance. Omer Meir Wellber's feverish, unsentimental, and nervous (in the very best sense) conducting style
stressed fast tempos and rhythmic tension. Forced dynamics were fortunately rare, as Wellber clearly understood how to skillfully blend the various orchestral parts. Following an initially
slightly impure intonation, the orchestra rose to the occasion, providing a precise, clear musical performance in a dignified manner that befitted the festival atmosphere.

La Stampa
ALBERTO MATTIOLI

The exceptional talent of Omer Meir Wellber, 31, is confirmed by the fact that he has been successful all over the world...

What a Carmen! That vitality, that drama (the overture is the most brilliant I've ever heard), that orgiastic sense of rhythm, color, effects. One is at first blinded, then admiring, and finally captivated. Regarding Elisir, it is not so much that it is a "conductor's opera" but the fact that for once it actually has one, and this exceptional quality makes us understand how miserable the usual metronomes really are.

Avvenire, 
PIERACHILLE DOLFINI

Israel-born Omer Meir Wellber could be defined as the new Barenboim. He has been described as one of the most significant emerging talents in the field of orchestral conducting, and demonstrated his talent last year on various occasions such as Aida in Padua, Rigoletto, Traviata, and Trovatore in Vienna and Li Schiaccianoci at La Scala in Milan.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
JULIA SPINOLA

Daniel Barenboim thinks highly of him, and the Valencia opera house has appointed
him as Chief Conductor Lorin Maazel's successor: On Saturday, 29-year-old Israeli
conductor Omer Meir Wellber conducted the opening performance at the Dresden
Semperoper.
Omer Meir Wellber loves to go to the extreme in his performances.
He memorizes each piece very quickly, and is ready to perform almost "too quickly".
Last season, conducting Carmen at the Berlin State Opera, you could experience enough
precision, freshness, and drama to take your breath away.