Christian Thielemann
Christian Thielemann will be General Music Director of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden from the 2024/25 season. He was Chief Conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden from 2012 to 2024. After holding positions at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, in Gelsenkirchen, Karlsruhe, Hanover and Düsseldorf, he came to Nuremberg as General Music Director in 1988. Born in Berlin, he returned to his home city in 1997 as General Music Director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin before holding the same position with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra from 2004 to 2011. In addition to his position in Dresden, he was Artistic Director of the Salzburg Easter Festival from 2013 to 2022 as well as Musical Advisor and Music Director of the Bayreuth Festival.
Christian Thielemann has a close working relationship with the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras, whose New Year's Concerts he conducted in 2019 and 2024. Numerous invitations also take him to the world's most important orchestras and theatres.
Christian Thielemann is an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music in London, an honorary professor at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden and an honorary doctor of the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar and the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. He was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in 2003. In May 2015, he received the Richard Wagner Prize from the Richard Wagner Foundation Leipzig, and in October 2016 the Prize of the Foundation for the Promotion of the Semperoper. In 2022, he was awarded the Decoration of Honour of the State of Salzburg and the Gold Medal of Arms of the City of Salzburg. In 2023, he received honorary membership and the Ring of Honour of the Vienna State Opera. In 2024, he was made an honorary member of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and an honorary conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden. The Free State of Saxony also honoured him with the Saxon Constitutional Medal. Christian Thielemann is patron of the Richard Wagner Sites Graupa. He has received numerous awards for his extensive discography.
Engagements in Bayreuth
| Year | Opera | Part |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Lohengrin | Conductor |
| 2022 | Lohengrin | Conductor |
| 2021 | Konzert Parsifal | Conductor |
| 2019 | Tristan und Isolde | Conductor |
| 2019 | Lohengrin | Conductor |
| 2019 | Tannhäuser | Conductor |
| 2018 | Tristan und Isolde | Conductor |
| 2018 | Lohengrin | Conductor |
| 2017 | Tristan und Isolde | Conductor |
| 2016 | Tristan und Isolde | Conductor |
| 2015 | Tristan und Isolde | Conductor |
| 2014 | Der fliegende Holländer | Conductor |
| 2013 | Der fliegende Holländer | Conductor |
| 2012 | Tannhäuser | Conductor |
| 2012 | Der fliegende Holländer | Conductor |
| 2010 | Götterdämmerung | Conductor |
| 2010 | Siegfried | Conductor |
| 2010 | Die Walküre | Conductor |
| 2010 | Das Rheingold | Conductor |
| 2009 | Götterdämmerung | Conductor |
| 2009 | Siegfried | Conductor |
| 2009 | Die Walküre | Conductor |
| 2009 | Das Rheingold | Conductor |
| 2008 | Götterdämmerung | Conductor |
| 2008 | Siegfried | Conductor |
| 2008 | Die Walküre | Conductor |
| 2008 | Das Rheingold | Conductor |
| 2007 | Götterdämmerung | Conductor |
| 2007 | Siegfried | Conductor |
| 2007 | Die Walküre | Conductor |
| 2007 | Das Rheingold | Conductor |
| 2006 | Götterdämmerung | Conductor |
| 2006 | Siegfried | Conductor |
| 2006 | Die Walküre | Conductor |
| 2006 | Das Rheingold | Conductor |
| 2005 | Tannhäuser | Conductor |
| 2004 | Tannhäuser | Conductor |
| 2003 | Tannhäuser | Conductor |
| 2002 | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg | Conductor |
| 2002 | Tannhäuser | Conductor |
| 2001 | IX. Symphonie | Conductor |
| 2001 | Parsifal | Conductor |
| 2001 | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg | Conductor |
| 2000 | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg | Conductor |
