Christian Thielemann

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

Thielemann studied viola and piano at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin and took private lessons in composition and conducting before becoming répétiteur aged 19 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with Heinrich Hollreiser and working as Herbert von Karajan's assistant. He worked at a number of smaller German theatres including the Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen, in Karlsruhe, Hanover, at Düsseldorf's Deutsche Oper am Rhein as First Kapellmeister and in Nürnberg as Generalmusikdirektor before returning to the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1991 to conduct Wagner's Lohengrin. During this time he also assisted Daniel Barenboim at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus.

His 1991/92 season debut in the United States, conducting a new production of Strauss' Elektra in San Francisco was soon followed by engagements at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. 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.

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Edit CNN 23 Jun 2016

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[VIDEO]: Texas Woman Awakens From Surgery With British Accent

Edit WorldNews.com 23 Jun 2016

Lisa Alamia, a mother of three, was scheduled for surgery to fix an overbite in December 2015. The native-born Texan, who claims to have never left the U.S. with the exception of a trip to Mexico several years ago, had successful surgery and woke up with an unexpected side effect – a British accent, ABC News reported Thursday. Her doctor thought swelling was causing the condition ... – WN.com, Jack Durschlag. ....

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File - Hall in the Musei Capitolini (Capitoline Museums) in Rome, where the European Constitution was signed on 29 October 2004 and where the European Economic Community had formally been founded in 1957 with the Treaty of Rome .

Britain and the EU: the story of a very rocky marriage

Edit The Guardian 23 Jun 2016

The UK referendum on whether to stay in the EU is the culmination of 70 years of a love/hate relationship. @jonhenley. Rejection and flirtation. When the six founding members of the European Economic Community (France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg) signed the in 1957 and asked Britain whether it fancied hanging out to see what might happen, Britain said thanks, but no thanks ... Twitter ... Doubts and drama ... ....

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A police officer secures the crime scene at a car dealer in Wendlingen, Germany, Thursday, March 12, 2009. The 17-year-old gunman opened fire at his former Albertville high school in Winnenden, southwestern Germany on Wednesday, killing 15 people before taking his own li

[VIDEO]: Gunman Killed After Allegedly Taking Hostages At German Cinema

Edit WorldNews.com 23 Jun 2016

Multiple media reports say a masked gunman who entered a cinema complex in the western German city of Viernheim in the state of Hessen and reportedly held hostages has been killed.State Interior Minister Peter Beuth told parliament police stormed the Knopolis complex near Frankfurt after reports of shots fired shot the as-yet unidentified gunman dead, the Belfast Telegraph reported....

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People comfort to the brother, center, of famous Sufi singer Amjad Sabri, who was killed by unknown attackers, at outside his residence in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday, June 22, 2016.

Amjad Sabri laid to rest in Karachi, thousands attend funeral

Edit Dawn 23 Jun 2016

KARACHI. Thousands of fans, supporters and friends attended the funeral prayers of Amjad Sabri, the famed qawwal who was shot dead in broad daylight in Liaquatabad here a day earlier. Sabri was laid to rest in the Paposhnagar Graveyard, next to his father, qawwali maestro Ghulam Farid Sabri. His namaz-i-janaza was held after Zuhr prayers at Furqania Masjid in Liaquatabad, which is also where the renowned singer lived ... — DawnNews ... ....

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Guest conductor Fabio Luisi brings soft-spoken artistry to Phila. Orchestra

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 05 Jan 2016

NEW YORK - At some point during an extended encounter with Philadelphia Orchestra guest conductor Fabio Luisi, you can't help comparing your socks with his - and wondering what that means ... My socks were plain gray wool ... ... Then, behind his back, conductor Christian Thielemann was hired for a high-profile New Year's Eve concert ... Fabio Luisi and Christian Tetzlaff perform Tchaikovsky on Thursday through Saturday at the Kimmel Center ... ....

The 50 Hong Kong music, art and stage highlights of 2015: our critics’ choice

Edit South China Morning Post 25 Dec 2015

Performing arts. Live entertainment comes in many forms and guises but the upside-down purple cow that has temporarily taken up residence at the Central Harbourfront has to be the most outlandish ... The past 12 months have seen a spike in live entertainment shows ... Kevin Kwong. Classical music ... Also with the Arts Festival, Christian Thielemann and the Staatskapelle Dresden performed a transcendent concert of German Romantic music ... Dance....

Manfred Honeck, Pittsburgh Symphony Present Handel’s Messiah in One-Night-Only BNY Mellon Grand Classics Special (Pittsburgh ...

Edit Public Technologies 19 Nov 2015

Christof Loy) under Christian Thielemann in 2011 ... Also in 2012, she had her debut at the Baden-Baden Festival, again under Christian Thielemann (Ariadne auf Naxos, Najade) ... In 2015, she will collaborate again with Christian Thielemann (Freischütz/Ännchen), this time at the Semperoper in Dresden....

Manfred Honeck, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Present BNY Mellon Grand Classics Weekend with Imperial Program (Pittsburgh ...

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At the Lucerne Festival, even hip-hop skateboarders love Pierre Boulez

Edit Lexington Herald-Leader 08 Sep 2015

LUCERNE, Switzerland — Among the great summer classical musical festivals of Europe, the monthlong event in this scenic city surely has the most cause to feel smug ... A sophisticated, formally attired audience fills to capacity the expensive seats night after night. Money does not seem a problem ... One night, an unsmiling Christian Thielemann sticks to serious Beethoven and Bruckner with his Dresden State Orchestra....

BBC Radio 3 announces autumn schedule updates (BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Sep 2015

(Source. BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation) ... Its new slot opens with Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S ... Later performances include Handel's dramatic oratorio Saul, staged for the first time at Glyndebourne, with Iestyn Davies and Christopher Purves; and Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, recorded at Wagner's own theatre in Bayreuth, led by Stephen Gould and Evelyn Herlitzius and conducted by Christian Thielemann ... Notes to Editors ... VT ... (noodl....

Tristan & Isolde

Edit Forbes 22 Aug 2015

In her second production for the Green Hill, Katharina Wagner has tackled Tristan und Isolde. A very fine Third Act, sadly undone by tedium in the Second ... conducted by Christian Thielemann.... ....

My Life With Wagner by Christian Thielemann; trans. Anthea Bell, book review: Wagner continues to ...

Edit The Independent 13 Aug 2015

The Berlin-born conductor Christian Thielemann is not unassociated with controversy ... Thielemann's book, My Life with Wagner, written with the German journalist Christine Lemke-Matwey and now translated into English, highlights the knotty, unresolved questions, which all music lovers have to face, relating to the Third Reich's favourite composer ... That is not a joke Thielemann is entitled to make....

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Edit The Economist 13 Aug 2015

By Christian Thielemann ... CHRISTIAN THIELEMANN has risen fast through the ranks of orchestral conductors, although not quite as quickly as he might have wished ... Mr Thielemann will be happy in Bayreuth, where Richard ......

Tristan und Isolde review – radical reimagining marks new chapter for Bayreuth

Edit The Guardian 26 Jul 2015

Christian Thielemann and co were on top form for a raw, impressive new production by Bayreuth boss Katharina Wagner ... With fine singers in all roles and Christian Thielemann delivering high musical standards from the pit, it marks a turn away from the directorial indulgence that has seemed to be Bayreuth’s hallmark in recent years ... Thielemann may be ......

Merkel falls for Germany’s Bayreuth opera

Edit Taipei Times 26 Jul 2015

The Bayreuth Festival, one of the hottest tickets in the world of opera, opened with a well-received new production of Richard Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde on Saturday, which also won praise from German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Merkel said she “liked it very much.” ... By contrast, boos were heard for conductor Christian Thielemann and German soprano Evelyn Herlitzius, who had taken on the demanding role of Isolde at short notice ... ....

Bayreuth Wagner fest opens with triumphant "Tristan"

Edit Yahoo Daily News 26 Jul 2015

By Michael Roddy ... What they got, courtesy of a splendid cast of singers including American tenor Stephen Gould as Tristan and German soprano Evelyn Herlitzius as Isolde, with the echt-Wagnerian German conductor Christian Thielemann in the pit, was a musical triumph if not a total artistic success ... But no one knew quite what to expect from Katharina, who is the festival's co-director ... An M.C ... (Editing by Bernard Orr) ....

Merkel tops guest list at legendary Bayreuth Festival

Edit Jakarta Post 25 Jul 2015

Katharina and the conductor of "Tristan and Isolde", Christian Thielemann, had been scheduled to give a press conference on Friday, but cancelled at the last minute ... There has been speculation of bitter rivalry between Petrenko and Thielemann after Petrenko was named chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, a position Thielemann was perceived to have coveted for years ... Thielemann is conducting the new production ... (++++) Tweet ....

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