Michael Boder

Michael Boder
Publicity shot of a smiling, clean-shaven man, with short hair.
Boder c. 2000
Born(1958-11-09)9 November 1958
Died7 April 2024(2024-04-07) (aged 65)
Vienna, Austria
EducationMusikhochschule Hamburg
OccupationOperatic conductor
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Michael Boder (9 November 1958 – 7 April 2024) was a German conductor of opera and concert who worked internationally. He was music director of the Basel Opera from 1989 to 1993, of the Liceu in Barcelona from 2008 to 2012, and principal conductor of the Royal Danish Theatre to 2016. He conducted regularly at the Vienna State Opera, including the world premieres of Cerha's Der Riese vom Steinfeld and Reimann's Medea. He also conducted the premieres of operas by Pascal Dusapin, Hans Werner Henze, Luca Lombardi, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Manfred Trojahn, among others.