Thielemann now probes the Romantic composer’s prejudices. “Whenever something in his life went wrong,” he writes, Wagner “blamed it on the Jews”.

Christian Thielemann extracts great force from his orchestra for an atmospheric performance of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen ...

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Sprawled in his dressing room at Lyric Opera and talking expansively about music and musicmaking, Christian Thielemann does not sound like a conductor on the fast track. Even if the facts would sug… ...

Video – Christian Thielemann on Tristan und Isolde: 'I keep it at arm's length. It only gets as close to me as I let it' Gramophone Tuesday, July 26, 2016 A fascinating insight into the conductor's ...

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Intoxicating music Hans Christoph von Bock / gsw06/12/2013 Christian Thielemann has been called the the world's foremost living Wagner conductor. In Dresden, he spoke with Hans Christoph von Bock ...

Berlin has appointed Christian Thielemann as the next music director at the city’s State Opera, inheriting the baton from an ailing Daniel Barenboim. A Wagner specialist, Thielemann had first ...

My Life With Wagner by Christian Thielemann; trans. Anthea Bell, book review: Wagner continues to strike chords of controversy Conductor Christian Thielemann is too blinkered about the composer's ...