Christian Thielemann

Christian Thielemann ( born April 1, 1959 in Berlin ) is a German conductor.

Biography

Christian Thielemann took piano lessons and studied viola. He began his career at nineteen years as a coach at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and at the same time in as assistant to Herbert von Karajan Berlin. In 1985 he was principal conductor at the Düsseldorf Rhein opera house and moved in 1988 as General Director of Music in Nuremberg. With an exemplary performance of Tristan, where the then recent GMD Germany succeeded artistic breakthrough. In 1997 he received a professorship at the German Opera Berlin. His local contract as music director, he announced in the summer of 2004. In September 2004, he was music director of the Munich Philharmonic. On 22 July 2009 the Munich City Council not to extend the current contract until 2011 decided, as Thielemann did not accept the draft contract offered to him. Since 2012 he has been chief conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden. Since 2013 he has also been the artistic director of the Salzburg Easter Festival.

After twenty years of operatic experience, he now focuses on selected orchestra and a few opera houses. Not least because of his Berlin performances all played in Bayreuth works of Richard Wagner and his Berlin Richard Strauss repertoire with Salome, Elektra, Die Frau ohne Schatten and Daphne applies Thielemann as a very sought-after conductor. In the opera, literature, its range extends up to Arnold Schoenberg's Moses und Aron and Hans Werner Henze's The Prince of Homburg. Tours have taken him to Japan, Italy, Spain, Portugal and France.

Thielemann has been working at the most famous opera houses in the world. In 1987 he debuted with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Vienna State Opera. At the Royal Opera House Covent Garden he conducted Jenufa, Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, The Egyptian Helena and Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina - a production which he subsequently also launched under the first guest performance from Covent Garden at the New York Met. At the Met he also conducted Der Rosenkavalier, Die Frau ohne Schatten and Arabella, at the Lyric Opera in Chicago a new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. At the Bayreuth Festival Thielemann debuted in 2000 with Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. In 2001, he directed Parsifal, 2002, a new production of Tannhäuser; 2006 to 2010 he headed the Bayreuth Ring (director Tancred Dorst ). At the Vienna State Opera he conducted in the spring of 2003, a new production of Tristan und Isolde; In June 2005, he conducted a revival of Parsifal.

Thielemann guest appearances with the Vienna Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, with whom he has performed and toured in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany and Switzerland. In the U.S., Thielemann performs regularly with orchestras in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. In October 2000, his close cooperation with the Vienna Philharmonic began; his debut at the Vienna Musikverein with Strauss's An Alpine Symphony and Rosenkavalier Suite was released by Deutsche Grammophon. In September 2002, Thielemann conducted the Vienna Philharmonic in the Musikverein, and then in Paris, London and Dortmund. In the fall of 2003, he traveled with the orchestra after concerts in Vienna 's tour to Japan. In July 2005, he opened with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival.

For the German Grammophon Christian Thielemann took with the Philharmonia Orchestra in London all the symphonies of Robert Schumann and Beethoven's 5th and 7th Symphony on, as well as with the Philadelphia Orchestra Preludes and Overtures by Richard Wagner. Four recordings with the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin were devoted overtures and preludes by Hans Pfitzner and Richard Strauss, Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, Schoenberg's Pelléas and Mélisande and Beethoven cantatas. Last came out a CD with arias Thomas Quasthoff and the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Was published in 2003 - again with the Vienna Philharmonic - a live recording, among other things of Strauss' Ein Heldenleben. In May 2004, the German Grammophon released the live recording of Tristan und Isolde from the Vienna State Opera. 2006 followed the Vienna Parsifal, also is a DVD recording of the Arabella from the Metropolitan Opera before. The end of 2009 they had a recording of the Bayreuth Ring.

Honors, Memberships

  • 2003 Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class
  • 2006 Full member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
  • 2010 Honorary Member of the International Music Academy for the promotion of gifted children and adolescents in Germany
  • 2011 honorary doctorate from the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar
  • 2011 inclusion in the Royal Academy of Music, London
  • 2012 honorary doctorate from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium )
  • 2014 Berlin Bear ( B.Z. Culture Prize )

Recordings

For DECCA

  • Richard Strauss ' Four Last Songs " with Renee Fleming and Munich Philharmonic, April 2008

For German Grammophon

  • Ludwig van Beethoven 's "Egmont " Overture and Johannes Brahms, Symphony No.1, Munich Philharmonic, April 2007
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Requiem, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, November 2006
  • Richard Wagner, Parsifal with Plácido Domingo, Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, April 2006
  • Anton Bruckner, Symphony No.5, Munich Philharmonic, March 2005
  • H. Marschner, F. Mendelssohn, O. Nicolai, C. M. Weber, R. Wagner, Overtures, Vienna Philharmonic, October 2004
  • Richard Wagner, Tristan and Isolde, Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, May 2004
  • Robert Schumann, Symphonies No.1 and No.4, Philharmonia Orchestra, 2001
  • Richard Strauss, Arabella with Kiri Te Kanawa, Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, March 2001
  • Richard Strauss, An Alpine Symphony and Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, Vienna Philharmonic, March 2001
  • Arnold Schoenberg, Pelleas and Melisande, and Richard Wagner, Siegfried Idyll, Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, October 2000
  • Carl Orff, Carmina Burana, the choir and orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, May 1999
  • Robert Schumann, Symphony No.3 " Rhenish ", " Genoveva " Overture, op.81, Overture, Scherzo and Finale, op.52, Philharmonia Orchestra, 1999
  • Richard Wagner, orchestral music ( Lohengrin, Parsifal, Tristan und Isolde ), Philadelphia Orchestra, February 1998
  • Robert Schumann, Symphony no. 2, Manfred Overture, op.86 Concert Piece in F for 4 Horns, Philharmonia Orchestra, September 1997
  • Ludwig van Beethoven, Funeral Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II, Robert Schumann, op.86 Concert Piece in F for 4 Horns Hans Pfitzner, Palestrina ( Preludes to Act I & II ), 1997
  • Hans Pfitzner, music from Palestrina and Cathy of 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

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