Christian Thielemann (born 1 April 1959) is a German

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. He is currently chief conductor of the

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. He was artistic director of the Salzburg Easter Festival from 2013 to 2022, and a regular conductor at the

Bayreuth Festival The Bayreuth Festival (german: link=no, Bayreuther Festspiele) is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of operas by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner are presented. Wagner himself conceived ...

. He also makes regular guest appearances with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra The Berlin Philharmonic (german: Berliner Philharmoniker, links=no, italic=no) is a German orchestra based in Berlin. It is one of the most popular, acclaimed and well-respected orchestras in the world. History The Berlin Philharmonic was fo ...

. In 2020, Thielemann was appointed honorary professor at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden.

Biography and career

Born in

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, Thielemann studied

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and

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there and took private lessons in composition and conducting before becoming ''

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'' aged 19 at the

Deutsche Oper Berlin The Deutsche Oper Berlin is a German opera company located in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. The resident building is the country's second largest opera house (after Munich's) and also home to the Berlin State Ballet. Since 2004, the D ...

with Heinrich Hollreiser and working as

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's assistant. He worked at a number of smaller German theatres including the

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in Gelsenkirchen, in Karlsruhe, Hanover, at Düsseldorf's Deutsche Oper am Rhein as First ''

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'' and in Nürnberg as ''

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'' before returning to the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1991 to conduct

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''. During this time, he also assisted

Daniel Barenboim Daniel Barenboim (; in he, דניאל בארנבוים, born 15 November 1942) is an Argentine-born classical pianist and conductor based in Berlin. He has been since 1992 General Music Director of the Berlin State Opera and "Staatskapellmeist ...

at the

Bayreuth Festspielhaus The ''Bayreuth Festspielhaus'' or Bayreuth Festival Theatre (german: link=no, Bayreuther Festspielhaus, ) is an opera house north of Bayreuth, Germany, built by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner and dedicated solely to the perform ...

. Thielemann made his US debut during the 1991–1992 season in a new production of Strauss' ''

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'' in San Francisco. Subsequent engagements at the

Metropolitan Opera The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, currently situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The company is operat ...

in New York followed. In 1997, he became ''Generalmusikdirektor'' of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. A report in 2000 stated that Thielemann was to leave the Deutsche Oper in 2001 over artistic conflicts with the then-incoming artistic director Udo Zimmermann. Thielemann remained with the company until 2004, when he resigned over conflicts regarding Berlin city funding between the Deutsche Oper and the

Staatsoper Unter den Linden The (), also known as the Berlin State Opera (german: Staatsoper Berlin), is a listed building on Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic center of Berlin, Germany. The opera house was built by order of Prussian king Frederick the Great from ...

. Thielemann became principal conductor and music director of the

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in September 2004. He stepped down from his Munich post in 2011, after disputes with orchestra management over final approval of selection of guest conductors and programs for the orchestra. In October 2009, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden announced the appointment of Thielemann as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2012/13 season. His current contract with Dresden was through 2019. In November 2017, the Staatskapelle Dresden announced the extension of Thielemann's contract as chief conductor through 31 July 2024. In May 2021, Barbara Klepsch, the Culture Minister of Saxony, announced that Thielemann is to conclude his tenure with the Staatskapelle Dresden at the close of his current contract, at the end of July 2024. Thielemann is a regular conductor at the

, following his début in 2000 with Wagner's ''

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (; "The Master-Singers of Nuremberg"), WWV 96, is a music drama, or opera, in three acts, by Richard Wagner. It is the longest opera commonly performed, taking nearly four and a half hours, not counting two breaks between acts, and is traditi ...

'', and at the

Salzburg Festival The Salzburg Festival (german: Salzburger Festspiele) is a prominent festival of music and drama established in 1920. It is held each summer (for five weeks starting in late July) in the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Ama ...

. With the decision in September 2008 of the Richard Wagner Festival Foundation to appoint Katharina Wagner and Eva Wagner-Pasquier to succeed Wolfgang Wagner as directors of the Bayreuth Festival, Thielemann was named musical advisor. In June 2015, the Bayreuth Festival formally announced the appointment of Thielemann as its music director. This contract expired in 2020. With conducting

in 2018, Thielemann has conducted all ten works by Richard Wagner that are regularly performed at the festival, a feat only Felix Mottl achieved before him. Thielemann attracted controversy after attribution of anti-semitic remarks to him in 2000, regarding Daniel Barenboim, which Thielemann subsequently denied. Other controversy has related to Thielemann's publication of opinions in sympathy with the Pegida movement. In 2003, Thielemann was awarded the

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(''Bundesverdienstkreuz''). In October 2011, he received honorary membership of the

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in London. In 2015, Thielemann won the Richard Wagner Award ''(Richard-Wagner-Preis)'' of Leipzig. He served in the Humanitas Programme as Visiting Professor in Opera Studies at Oxford University in January 2016. In 2019, he made his first conducting appearance in the New Year's Concert with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

Recordings

For

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, "The Symphonies",

Vienna Philharmonic The Vienna Philharmonic (VPO; german: Wiener Philharmoniker, links=no) is an orchestra that was founded in 1842 and is considered to be one of the finest in the world. The Vienna Philharmonic is based at the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria. It ...

, 2012 * Anton Bruckner, '' Symphony No.8,''

, 2019 * Anton Bruckner, '' Symphony No.3,''

, 2020 * Anton Bruckner, '' Symphony No.4,''

, 2020 For Profil * Anton Bruckner, '' Symphony No. 8'', Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, October 2010 For Opus Arte *

Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most o ...

, ''

Der Ring des Nibelungen (''The Ring of the Nibelung''), WWV 86, is a cycle of four German-language epic music dramas composed by Richard Wagner. The works are based loosely on characters from Germanic heroic legend, namely Norse legendary sagas and the ''Nibelung ...

'' with Michelle Breedt, Albert Dohmen, Stephen Gould,

Hans-Peter König Hans-Peter König is a German operatic bass best known for his roles in Wagnerian opera. Career Hans-Peter König studied singing at the Dortmund University Institute of Music, taking lessons from Gladys Kuchta in Düsseldorf. He then trained at ...

, Linda Watson and

Eva-Maria Westbroek Eva-Maria Westbroek (born 26 April 1970) is a Dutch soprano opera singer. Training Westbroek studied at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague from 1988 to 1995. Her vocal teachers included Iris Adami Corradetti and the American tenor James McCr ...

orchestra, recorded live during the 2008 Festival, November 2009 For

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Arnold Schoenberg Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (, ; ; 13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter. He is widely considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He was as ...

, ''

Pelleas und Melisande ''Pelleas und Melisande'', Op. 5, is a symphonic poem written by Arnold Schoenberg and completed in February 1903. It was premiered on 25 January 1905 at the Musikverein in Vienna under the composer's direction in a concert that also included th ...

'' and ''

Siegfried Idyll The ', WWV 103, by Richard Wagner is a symphonic poem for chamber orchestra. Background Wagner composed the ''Siegfried Idyll'' as a birthday present to his second wife, Cosima, after the birth of their son Siegfried in 1869. It was first perfo ...

'', Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, November 2009 For Decca *

Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, and violinist. Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic music, Romantic and early Modernism (music), modern eras, he has been descr ...

, ''

Der Rosenkavalier (''The Knight of the Rose'' or ''The Rose-Bearer''), Op. 59, is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from the novel ''Les amours du chevalier de Faublas'' ...

'' DVD with Renée Fleming, Sophie Koch, Diana Damrau, Franz Hawlata and

Jonas Kaufmann Jonas Kaufmann (born 10 July 1969) is a German operatic tenor. He is best known for the versatility of his repertoire, performing a variety of opera roles in multiple languages in recital Tommasini, Anthony (21 February 2014)"A Tenor Finds Energy ...

, October 2009 For

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* ''Der kleine Hörsaal, Dirigieren mit Christian Thielemann'', July 2007 *

, Overture "Egmont" and

Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms (; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid- Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes grouped wit ...

, Symphony No.1, Munich Philharmonic, April 2007 *

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition r ...

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, Munich Philharmonic and Choir of the

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, November 2006 *Richard Wagner, ''

Parsifal ''Parsifal'' ( WWV 111) is an opera or a music drama in three acts by the German composer Richard Wagner and his last composition. Wagner's own libretto for the work is loosely based on the 13th-century Middle High German epic poem '' Parziv ...

'', Choir and Orchestra of the

Vienna State Opera The Vienna State Opera (, ) is an opera house and opera company based in Vienna, Austria. The 1,709-seat Renaissance Revival venue was the first major building on the Vienna Ring Road. It was built from 1861 to 1869 following plans by August ...

, April 2006 * Anton Bruckner, Symphony No.5, Munich Philharmonic, March 2005 *

Heinrich Marschner Heinrich August Marschner (16 August 1795 – 14 December 1861) was the most important composer of German opera between Weber and Wagner.

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include sym ...

, Otto Nicolai,

Carl Maria von Weber Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (18 or 19 November 17865 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and critic who was one of the first significant composers of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas, ...

, Richard Wagner, Overtures,

, October 2004 *Richard Wagner, ''

Tristan und Isolde ''Tristan und Isolde'' (''Tristan and Isolde''), WWV 90, is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the 12th-century romance Tristan and Iseult by Gottfried von Strassburg. It was compos ...

'', Orchestra of the

, May 2004 *Richard Strauss, ''

Ein Heldenleben ''Ein Heldenleben'' (''A Hero's Life''), Op. 40, is a tone poem by Richard Strauss. The work was completed in 1898. It was his eighth work in the genre, and exceeded any of its predecessors in its orchestral demands. Generally agreed to be au ...

'' and Symphonic Fantasy of ''

Die Frau ohne Schatten ' (''The Woman without a Shadow''), Op. 65, is an opera in three acts by Richard Strauss with a libretto by his long-time collaborator, the poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It was written between 1911 and either 1915 or 1917. When it premiered at the ...

'', Vienna Philharmonic, August 2003 *

Albert Lortzing Gustav Albert Lortzing (23 October 1801 – 21 January 1851) was a German composer, librettist, actor and singer. He is considered to be the main representative of the German '' Spieloper'', a form similar to the French ''opéra comique'', whic ...

, Richard Strauss,

, Richard Wagner, Deutsche Opernarien with Thomas Quasthoff and the Orchestra of the

, April 2002 *

Robert Schumann Robert Schumann (; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career a ...

, Symphonies No.1 and No.4,

Philharmonia Orchestra The Philharmonia Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London. It was founded in 1945 by Walter Legge, a classical music record producer for EMI. Among the conductors who worked with the orchestra in its early years were Richard Strauss, ...

, 2001 *Richard Strauss, '' Arabella'' with

Kiri Te Kanawa Dame Kiri Jeanette Claire Te Kanawa , (; born Claire Mary Teresa Rawstron, 6 March 1944) is a retired New Zealand opera singer. She had a full lyric soprano voice, which has been described as "mellow yet vibrant, warm, ample and unforced". Te ...

and the Orchestra and Choir of the

, March 2001 *Richard Strauss, ''

Eine Alpensinfonie ''An Alpine Symphony'' (''Eine Alpensinfonie''), Op. 64, is a tone poem for large orchestra written by German composer Richard Strauss in 1915. It is one of Strauss's largest non-operatic works; the score calls for about 125 players and a t ...

'' and Suite of ''

'', Vienna Philharmonic, March 2001 *

, ''

'' and Richard Wagner, ''

'', June 1999 *

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, ''

Carmina Burana ''Carmina Burana'' (, Latin for "Songs from Benediktbeuern" 'Buria'' in Latin is a manuscript of 254 poems and dramatic texts mostly from the 11th or 12th century, although some are from the 13th century. The pieces are mostly bawdy, irreveren ...

'', Choir and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, May 1999 *Robert Schumann, Symphony No.3 "Rheinische", Overture "Genoveva", Op. 81, Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op. 52, Philharmonia Orchestra, 1999 *Richard Wagner, Orchestra Music (''

'', ''

''),

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, February 1998 *Robert Schumann, Symphony No.2, Overture ''Manfred'', Concert for 4 Horns, Op. 86, Philharmonia Orchestra, September 1997 *

, Funeral Cantata on the Death of the Emperor Joseph II, Robert Schumann, Konzertstück, Op. 86, for 4 Horns and Orchestra,

Hans Pfitzner Hans Erich Pfitzner (5 May 1869 – 22 May 1949) was a German composer, conductor and polemicist who was a self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera '' Palestrina'' (1917), loosely based on the life of the ...

, ''

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'' (Preludes to acts 1 and 2), 1997 *

, Music from ''

''; ''Das Käthchen von Heilbronn''; Richard Strauss, ''Guntram'' (prelude), ''Capriccio'' (prelude), ''Feuersnot'' (love scene), Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, 1996 For

EMI Classics EMI Classics was a record label founded by Thorn EMI in 1990 to reduce the need to create country-specific packaging and catalogues for internationally distributed European classical music, classical music releases. After Thorn EMI demerged ...

*Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss, Arias by René Kollo, Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, 1992 For Unitel Classica *

, Arabella. Live recording of Salzburg Easter Festival 2014. DVD and Blue Ray with Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson, Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Daniel Behle. Stage director: Florentine Klepper, Sächsischer Staatsopernchor and Staatskapelle Dresden. Unitel Classica, September 2014.

TV and film productions

Productions about Thielemann

* ''Christian Thielemann'', documentary film, Germany, 2012, directed by Mathias Siebert, produced by Bremedia Produktion,

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, in the serial ''Deutschland, deine Künstler''. * ''Christian Thielemann – Romantischer Querkopf'', documentary film by Felix Schmidt, 2007, produced by FTS Media and Unitel, coproduced by Classica * ''Through the Night with Christoph Schlingensief and Christian Thielemann'' ('' Durch die Nacht mit ...''), documentary film, Germany, 2002, directed by: Edda Baumann-von Broen and Daniel Finkernagel, produced by: avanti media, ZDF and

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Productions with Thielemann

* Frederick the Great Remix ''(Der Große Friedrich Remix – Musik um den Preußenkönig)'', directed by Friederike Schlumbom, Oktober 18, 2012, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg * Discovering Beethoven ''(Beethoven entdecken)'', documentary TV serial, Germany, Austria, 2011, directed by Christoph Engel and Anca-Monica Pandelea, produced by: Unitel Classica,

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, ZDF,

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Joachim Kaiser Joachim Kaiser (18 December 1928 − 11 May 2017) was a German music, literature and theatre critic. From 1959 he worked as a senior editor in the ''feuilleton'' of the ''Süddeutsche Zeitung''; from 1977 to 1996 he was professor of history of mu ...

and Christian Thielemann talk about Beethoven's nine symphonies.

Concert records on TV

* The Vienna Philharmonic in Beijing ''(Die Wiener Philharmoniker in Beijing)''. National Centre for the Performing Arts of Beijing, recording of 3 November 2013,

* Wagner Birthday Concert: Thielemann conducts the

''(Wagner-Geburtstagskonzert: Thielemann dirigiert die Sächsische Staatskapelle)'', recording of Mai 21, 2013, directed by: Michael Beyer, ZDF * Thielemann conducts Strauß ''(Thielemann dirigiert Strauß)'', Christian Thielemann and the

2011, Great Festival Hall, Salzburg, directed by Michael Beyer, 3sat * Summer Night Music with Christian Thielemann ''(Sommernachtsmusik mit Christian Thielemann)'', Christian Thielemann conducts the

, Herrenchiemsee Palace, 31 August 2010, directed by Henning Kasten, ZDF and

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Arte, August 2010.

Awards

*2003:

''(Bundesverdienstkreuz)'' *2011:

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from Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar *2011: Inclusion in the

, London *2012: Honorary doctorate from the

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, Belgium *2015: Richard Wagner Award ''(Richard-Wagner-Preis)''

Publications

* * Christian Thielemann, ''Mein Leben mit Wagner''. Munich: Beck, 2012, ** * Christian Thielemann, ''Meine Reise zu Beethoven''. Munich: Beck, 2020,

References

External links

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"Christian Thielemann – the power and the politics"
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'', 15 October 2009
"Christian Thielemann citation"
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"A Conductor's Point of View"
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