The Royal Seville Symphony Orchestra ( es, Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla), founded in 1990, is a symphony orchestra based in

Seville Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula ...

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. One of the leading Spanish Orchestras is the resident of the

Teatro de la Maestranza The Teatro de la Maestranza is an opera house located in Seville, Spain. The theatre was conceived to be one of the main cultural venues of the Seville Expo '92, and the first performance took place in 1991, shortly before the inauguration of the ...

in Seville. Its first music director was

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. Later music directors include Klaus Weise,

Alain Lombard Alain Lombard (born 4 October 1940, Paris) is a French conductor. Career Lombard attended the Conservatoire de Paris, where his studied violin with Line Talleul and conducting with Gaston Poulet. He subsequently secured an appointment at the ...

, and

Pedro Halffter Pedro Halffter Caro (born 1971 in Madrid) is a Spanish conductor and composer. He is Artistic Director of the Teatro de la Maestranza (Seville). Born in Madrid, as the son of composer Cristóbal Halffter, he went to boarding school in Germany at ...

. The current music director, unanimously elected by the musicians, is

John Axelrod John Neal Axelrod (born March 28, 1966, in Houston, Texas) is an American conductor. Axelrod was elected Artistic and musical director of the Royal Symphony Orchestra of Seville in 2014(ABC de SevillaRetrieved 2014-11-26./ref> and is Principal Co ...

References

External links

Official website
{{Authority control Spanish orchestras Musical groups established in 1990