BERLIN – Christian Thielemann has been chosen as the brand new basic music director of Berlin’s Staatsoper, months after Daniel Barenboim ended his three-decade reign, the town executive mentioned Wednesday.
The 64-year-old German conductor will take the process on the Staatsoper, or State Opera, subsequent yr, Berlin state tradition minister Joe Chialo introduced. “With him, we’re making sure the best musical excellence for our town,” he said.
Thielemann trained as an assistant to Herbert von Karajan and Barenboim, worked in smaller German houses and was music director of Nuremberg’s State Theater from 1988–1992.
He moved on to serve as music director of Berlin’s Deutsche Oper from 1997-2004 and of the Munich Philharmonic from 2004-11. He has been chief conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden since 2012-13, a role that already was scheduled to end after the 2023-24 season.
Thielemann also has conducted over 150 Vienna Philharmonic concerts and led more than 180 performances at the Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth.
Barenboim was credited with leading the Staatsoper, which is located in what was communist East Berlin until 1990 and is one of three opera houses in reunited Germany’s capital, to world renown after reunification.
Now 80, he used to be basic music director from 1992 till he stepped down on the finish of January, announcing that his well being had change into too deficient to lift on.