Christian Thielemann succeeds Daniel Barenboim on the Berlin Staatsoper

Thielemann, who has frequently led the Staatskapelle, will succeed Barenboim from September 2024.

German conductor Christian Thielemann will be successful Israeli-Argentine maestro Daniel Barenboim as director of the Berlin Staatsoper, whom the latter left for health motives, the prestigious German institution announced on Wednesday. Last January, the 80-year-vintage pianist and conductor born in Argentina, Barenboim, suffering from a severe neurological infection, introduced his resignation from the Berlin Opera.

The head of Culture in Berlin, Joe Chialo, indicated that Christian Thielemann, who has frequently performed the Berlin Staatsoper orchestra, the Staatskapelle, will succeed Barenboim from September 2024. The Berlin Staatsoper, located on the primary road Unter den Linden, in the former SST a part of the German capital, is one of the town’s 3 opera homes.

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Born in Berlin, classical tune megastar Christian Thielemann is thought for his love of Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner. Last year, his production at the Staatsoper du Ringthe well-known tetralogy via Richard Wagner additionally called theRing of the Nibelung in French, were “unanimously defined as exceptional”, consistent with the German daily Berliner Zeitung.

The German conductor, aged 64, is underneath settlement till subsequent yr with the Staatskapelle of Dresden, whose orchestra he directs, one of the maximum famend in the German-speakme international. A protégé of the mythical Herbert von Karajan, Christian Thielemann was wellknown song director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, an opera house in the west of the capital, however resigned in 2004 due to a financing dispute with the city.