Christian Thielemann

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Christian Thielemann at a rehearsal in the Vienna State Opera , 2015

Christian Thielemann (born April 1, 1959 in West Berlin ) is a German conductor . He has been chief conductor of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden since 2012 and is considered one of the most renowned conductors worldwide. Thielemann has also been artistic director of the Salzburg Easter Festival since 2013 and until 2023 . He is also a guest with the Vienna Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic , the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra London.

Christian Thielemann is an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music in London and an honorary doctorate from the Liszt School of Music Weimar and the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) . In May 2015 he was awarded the Richard Wagner Prize of the Richard Wagner Society of the City of Leipzig, in October 2016 he was awarded the Prize of the Foundation for the Promotion of the Semperoper . Christian Thielemann is the patron of the Richard Wagner sites in Graupa and has taken over the patronage for the 49th international youth competition " youth creativ " of the Volksbanken and Raiffeisenbanken. In 2019 he was awarded honorary membership of the Gustav Mahler Association Hamburg. He has received numerous awards for his recordings.

Thielemann lives in Potsdam- Babelsberg .

biography

Christian Thielemann took piano lessons and studied viola . He began his career at the age of nineteen as a répétiteur at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and at the same time as an assistant to Herbert von Karajan in Berlin. In 1985 he became first conductor at the Düsseldorf Rhine Opera and in 1988 moved to the State Theater in Nuremberg as General Music Director (GMD) . There the youngest GMD in Germany achieved its artistic breakthrough with a performance of Tristan . In 1997 he was offered a position at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He resigned his contract as general music director there in summer 2004. In September 2004 he became general music director of the Munich Philharmonic . On July 22, 2009, the Munich city council decided not to extend the contract, which ran until 2011, because Thielemann had not accepted the proposed contract.

After twenty years of opera experience, he is now concentrating on selected orchestras and a few opera houses. Not least because of his Berlin performances of all of Richard Wagner's works performed in Bayreuth and his Berlin Richard Strauss repertoire with Salome , Elektra , Die Frau ohne Schatten and Daphne , Thielemann is a sought-after conductor. In opera literature, his range extends to Arnold Schönberg's Moses und Aron and Hans Werner Henze's The Prince of Homburg . Tours have taken him to Japan, Italy, Spain, Portugal and France, among others.

In 1987 he made his debut with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Vienna State Opera . At the London Opera House Covent Garden he conducted Jenůfa , Elektra , Der Rosenkavalier , Die ägyptische Helena and Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina - a production which he then directed as part of Covent Garden's first guest performance at the New York Met . He also conducted Der Rosenkavalier , Die Frau ohne Schatten and Arabella at the Met, and a new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Lyric Opera of Chicago .

Thielemann made his debut at the Bayreuth Festival in 2000 with Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg . In 2001 he conducted Parsifal , in 2002 a new production of Tannhäuser ; from 2006 to 2010 he directed the Bayreuther Ring (directed by Tankred Dorst ) , and in 2012 he directed Der fiegen Holländer . In 2015 he took over the musical direction for Tristan und Isolde in Bayreuth . Thielemann had already directed a new production of Tristan und Isolde at the Vienna State Opera in spring 2003 ; in June 2005 he conducted a revival of Parsifal . On June 29, 2015 it was announced that Thielemann had already been appointed music director of the Bayreuth Festival on March 15, 2015 and with effect until 2020, a position that had not existed before. Thielemann was previously musical advisor to the festival management and would like to pass on his experience in this new position and should basically deal with all musical matters of the house.

Thielemann conducted the 2019 New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic .

Recordings

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Albums
Happy New Year - the operetta gala from Dresden (with Staatskapelle Dresden , Ingeborg Schöpf & Piotr Beczała )
  AT 73 01/25/2013 (1 week)
Wagner: Ring (with Vienna State Opera )
  DE 59 07/05/2013 (1 week)
  AT 44 07/05/2013 (1 week)
New Year's Concert 2019 - New Year's Concert 2019 (with Vienna Philharmonic )
  DE 13 11/01/2019 (7 weeks)
  AT 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link January 18, 2019 (20 weeks)
  CH 3 01/13/2019 (7 weeks)

For Deutsche Grammophon , Thielemann recorded all of Robert Schumann's symphonies with the Philharmonia Orchestra London , as well as Beethoven's 5th and 7th symphonies and Richard Wagner's preludes and overtures with the Philadelphia Orchestra . Four recordings with the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin were dedicated to overtures and auditions by Hans Pfitzner and Richard Strauss , Carl Orff's Carmina Burana , Schönberg's Pelleas and Melisande as well as Beethoven cantatas. In 2002 a CD of arias with Thomas Quasthoff and the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin was released. In 2003 - again with the Vienna Philharmonic - a live recording of Strauss' Ein Heldenleben was released . In May 2004, Deutsche Grammophon released the live recording of Tristan and Isolde from the Vienna State Opera. The Vienna Parsifal followed in 2006 , and there is also a DVD recording of Arabella from the Metropolitan Opera . At the end of 2009 a recording of the Bayreuther Ring was released , in June 2013 one of the Wiener Ring .

For DECCA
For Deutsche Grammophon
  • Ludwig van Beethoven, Egmont Overture and Johannes Brahms , Symphony No. 1 ; Munich Philharmonic, April 2007.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Requiem ; Munich Philharmonic and Bavarian Radio Choir , November 2006.
  • Richard Wagner, Parsifal , with Plácido Domingo ; Choir and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera , April 2006.
  • Anton Bruckner , Symphony No. 5 ; Munich Philharmonic, March 2005.
  • Marschner , Mendelssohn , Nicolai , Wagner, Weber , overtures; Vienna Philharmonic, October 2004.
  • Richard Wagner, Tristan and Isolde ; Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, May 2004.
  • Richard Strauss, Ein Heldenleben and Symphonic Fantasy from Die Frau ohne Schatten ; Vienna Philharmonic, August 2003.
  • Albert Lortzing , Richard Strauss, Carl Maria von Weber, Richard Wagner: German opera arias, with Thomas Quasthoff and orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, April 2002.
  • Robert Schumann , Symphonies No. 1 and No. 4 , Philharmonia Orchestra, 2001
  • Richard Strauss, Arabella ; with Kiri Te Kanawa , Orchestra and Choir of the Metropolitan Opera, March 2001.
  • Richard Strauss, An Alpine Symphony and Suite from Der Rosenkavalier ; Vienna Philharmonic, March 2001.
  • Arnold Schönberg, Pelleas and Melisande and Richard Wagner, Siegfried Idyll ; Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, October 2000.
  • Carl Orff, Carmina Burana ; Choir and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, May 1999.
  • Robert Schumann, Symphony No. 3 “Rheinische”, “Genoveva” overture, op. 81, overture, Scherzo and Finale, op. 52; Philharmonia Orchestra, 1999.
  • Richard Wagner, orchestral music ( Lohengrin , Parsifal , Tristan and Isolde ); Philadelphia Orchestra, February 1998.
  • Robert Schumann, Symphony No. 2 , Manfred overture , concert piece op. 86 in F for 4 horns; Philharmonia Orchestra, September 1997.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven, Funeral Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II , Robert Schumann, Konzertstück op.86 in F for 4 horns, Hans Pfitzner, Palestrina (Preludes to Act I & II), 1997.
  • Hans Pfitzner, music from Palestrina and Das Käthchen von Heilbronn , Richard Strauss, Guntram (Prelude), Capriccio (Prelude), Feuersnot (love scene); Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, 1996.
For EMI Classics
  • Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss, arias sung by René Kollo , Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, 1992.
For Opus Arte
  • Richard Wagner, Der Ring des Nibelungen , Bayreuth Festival 2008 (14 CDs, 2:56 p.m.), published in 2009.

Honors, memberships

In 2004 Thielemann received the ECHO Klassik as Artist of the Year, but gave it back in 2018.

literature

TV and film productions

Productions about Thielemann

  • Christian Thielemann. Documentary, 43:56 min., Germany, 2012, script and director: Mathias Siebert, production: Bremedia Produktion, Radio Bremen , MDR , series: Germany, your artists , season 5 - episode 4, first broadcast: August 15, 2012, film -Information from ARD .
  • Christian Thielemann. Romantischer Querkopf , documentary by Felix Schmidt, 52 min., Germany, 2007. Production: FTS Media and Unitel in coproduction with Classica
  • Through the night with ... Christoph Schlingensief and Christian Thielemann. Documentary, 74 min., Germany, 2002, director: Edda Baumann-von Broen and Daniel Finkernagel, production: avanti media, ZDF, arte , episode 1 of the series, first broadcast: May 10, 2002, film information from avanti media.

Productions with Thielemann

  • Christian Thielemann - My Strauss. Documentary, Germany, 45 min., Written and directed: Andreas Morell, production: 3B-Produktion, Unitel Classica , ZDF , 3sat , first broadcast: June 8, 2014 on 3sat.
  • Wagner vs. Verdi. Documentary film series in six parts, directed by Martin Betz, Daniel Gerlach et al., 2013, ZDF .
  • Der Große Friedrich Remix - Music about the Prussian King. Director: Friederike Schlumbom, October 18, 2012, rbb.
  • Discover Beethoven. (Alternative title: Discovering Beethoven. ) Documentary film series in nine parts of approx. 55 minutes each, Germany, Austria, 2011, directors: Christoph Engel and Anca-Monica Pandelea, production: Unitel Classica, ORF , ZDF , 3sat .
    Joachim Kaiser and Christian Thielemann discuss the special features of Beethoven's nine symphonies . As a basis, Thielemann's performances with the Vienna Philharmonic in the Vienna Musikverein are taken and compared with the recordings of other conductors ( discussion ).

Concert recordings

  • The Vienna Philharmonic in Beijing. National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, recorded November 3, 2013, 3sat.
  • Wagner birthday concert: Thielemann conducts the Sächsische Staatskapelle. May 21, 2013, directed by Michael Beyer, ZDF.
  • Thielemann conducts Strauss. Christian Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic, Salzburg Festival 2011, Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg, director: Michael Beyer, 3sat
  • Summer night music with Christian Thielemann. Christian Thielemann conducts the Munich Philharmonic, Herrenchiemsee Palace, August 31, 2010, directed by Henning Kasten, ZDF and Arte.

Trivia

In 2019, the show with the mouse was hosted in the Richard-Wagner-Festspielhaus . The title melody of the show was played under the direction of Christian Thielemann. This was one of the few times since the establishment of the house that music was played that did not come from Wagner, with the exception of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. This issue of "Sendung mit der Maus" was broadcast on July 28, 2019.

Web links

Commons : Christian Thielemann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Karim Saab: Conductor Christian Thielemann wants the old Potsdam city center back. Märkische Allgemeine , November 30, 2016, accessed December 31, 2017 .
  2. Who is who in the Federal Republic of Germany. Zug 2001, p. 3930.
  3. Bayreuth Festival, Festival 2015 ( Memento from April 17, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. Christian Thielemann appointed music director of the Bayreuth Festival. Journal der Freunde von Bayreuth, Society of Friends of Bayreuth eV, July 9, 2015.
  5. Christian Thielemann on Bayreuth and Berlin: “The slightly larger piece of cake” ( Memento from July 5, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ), BR-Klassik , July 7, 2015.
  6. Chart sources: DE AT CH
  7. The Ring of the Nibelung on deutschegrammophon.com
  8. ^ Richard Wagner Prize 2015
  9. Arte, August 2010 program. ( Memento from April 3, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
  10. See and Die Bayreuth in: Nordbayerischer Kurier from February 1, 2019, p. 13.
  11. BR-Klassik: Festival orchestra plays “mouse” melody. BR-Klassik , online portal, July 24, 2019. Accessed July 28, 2019 .
  12. The show with the mouse. Twitter channel, July 22, 2019, accessed July 22, 2019 .
  13. https://www.wdrmaus.de/aktuelle-sendung/ - accessed on July 28, 2019