Biography
As Music Director of OONY, Eve Queler has conducted over 100 operas in concert at Carnegie Hall. Standing out among her many successes are Wagner’s Rienzi and Tristan und Isolde, Berlioz’ Benvenuto Cellini, Smetana’s Dalibor, and Strauss’ Die Liebe der Danae.
Antoinetta Stella, Eve Queler, Richard Tucker, L’Africana, 1972
Grace Bumbry, Plácido Domingo, Eve Queler, Paul Plishka, Le Cid, 1976
She received one of the highest awards presented by the French government when she was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture for her commitment to French operas. Maestro Queler has also received the Sanford Medal (Yale University’s highest musical honor), and the prestigious Touchstone Award from Women In Music, Inc., in recognition of her visionary spirit as one of the “Women Who Make a Difference.”
Queler has championed many neglected Russian and Czech operas that are staples in Central Europe but virtually unknown in America. She was the first conductor here to perform Musorgsky’s unfinished Khovanshchina with orchestration by Shostakovich, as well as the first Czech-language performance of Janacek’s Katya Kabanova (1979), Jenüfa (1988), and Dvorak’s Rusalka (1987).
Eve Queler has guest conducted worldwide, including: Mazeppa with the Kirov Opera in St. Petersburg, Russia; Don Pasquale with the Hamburg Oper; Tancredi with the Frankfurt Oper; Fidelio, Jenüfa and La traviata with Oper Bonn; Der fliegende Holländer in Kassel; The Abduction from the Seraglio with the Australian Opera in Sydney; I vespri siciliani and Parisina d’Este at the Liceu in Barcelona and Nice Opera; Anna Bolena with the San Diego Opera; La bohème with the Utah Opera; I puritani in Royal Festival Hall, London; Lakmé in Caracas; Tales of Hoffmann in South Africa and Quebec City; and opera gala concerts at the Salle Pleyel, Paris, and with the Honolulu Symphony and Hong Kong Philharmonic.
In 2004 she led Rossini’s Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra at Buenos Aires’ legendary Teatro Colón. She has conducted numerous symphony orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Rome Opera, Montreal Symphony, and San Antonio Symphony.
