The 24/25 season sees Riveiro Böhm make her English National Opera debut in November, as she leads eight performances of a new production of Donizetti’s Elixir of Love at the London Coliseum. She will also return to Welsh National Opera to conduct performances of Verdi’s Rigoletto in venues across the UK, after her recent success leading the company in their new production of Magic Flute.
Later in the season she will return to BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra after her highly successful debut in 2023, to lead a programme of Bacewicz, Strauss and Rachmaninoff, as well as make debuts with the Symphonieorchester St. Gallen, the Orquesta de Córdoba, the Orquestra Sinfónica Metropolitana, and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.
Recent highlights include her Sydney Opera House debut in February 2024, where she led Opera Australia in a new production of Magic Flute to critical acclaim. This marked Riveiro Böhm’s second appearance in Australia following her acclaimed debut with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and Sasha Gavrylyuk in October 2022. In recent seasons she has also made debuts with the DSO-Berlin, Lucerne Opera, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, the Recreation-Orchester at the Styriarte Festival Graz, the Orquesta de Extremadura, l‘Orchestre de Picardie, l’Orchestre National de Metz, Irish National Opera, and l’Orchestre de Chambre de Genève. She has also led the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland in the world premiere of Andrea Tarrodi’s concerto for piano trio and orchestra, appeared at the Palau de la Música Catalana with the Orquesta Sinfónica del Vallés, and led the Royal Northern Sinfonia at the Ulverston Music Festival.
After spending two years as Leverhulme Conducting Fellow with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in association with the BBC Scottish Symphony from 2019 to 2021, Riveiro Böhm held the position of Associate Conductor of both the Welsh National Opera (WNO) and Barcelona Symphony Orchestra (OBC) for the 22/23 season. Her role with the WNO saw her conduct six performances of their new production of Magic Flute, as well as an orchestral concert featuring Dame Sarah Connolly as part of Classic FM’s 30th Anniversary. At the OBC she worked in close collaboration with Music Director Ludovic Morlot, and led the orchestra in an outdoor concert as part of the historic La Mercè Festival, with a programme featuring works by Dvořák, de Grignon and Beethoven.
At a very early age, Riveiro Böhm moved from her home in Vienna to Moscow to pursue the violin. After studying at the Central Music School affiliated with the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, she returned to Vienna where she first gained experience as a conductor through a number of choirs and orchestras, including the Cappella Albertina Wien choir, of which she was Artistic Director. She has worked with conductors including Manfred Honeck, Paavo Järvi, David Zinman, Ludovic Morlot, Martyn Brabbins, Thomas Dausgaard, Sian Edwards, Stuart Stratford, Garry Walker, Donald Runnicles, Baldur Brönimann and Antony Hermus.
In previous seasons Riveiro Böhm received the first prize at the Dichler Wettbewerb in Vienna and the first orchestra prize from the Savaria Symphony Orchestra, and was presented with the Special Award for Exceptional Artistic Achievement by the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz.
Riveiro Böhm studied Orchestral Conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna (MDW) with Johannes Wildner and at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne with Alexander Rumpf and Stephan E. Wehr (opera). She previously studied Church Music at the MDW, and Choir Conducting with Erwin Ortner. She completed a Specialised Master’s Degree in conducting at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) under the guidance of Johannes Schlaefli and Christoph-Mathias Mueller.
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