Christian Thielemann
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Christian Thielemann is a German conductor. He is Generalmusikdirektor of the Berlin State Opera and chief conductor of the Staatskapelle Berlin.
Conducting at the Vienna State Opera in 2022
Thielemann on stage (front, second from the left) with Kwangchul Yoon, Eva-Maria Westbroek and Johann Botha at the Bayreuth Festival Orchstra, 2013.
Thielemann at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 2024, with Elisabeth Sobotka.
Tristan und Isolde
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Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90, is a music drama in three acts by Richard Wagner set to a German libretto by the composer, loosely based on Gottfried von Strassburg's medieval 12th-century romance Tristan
Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld and his wife Malvina starring as Tristan and Isolde in the first performance
Photo of Wagner in Brussels, 1860
Painting of Mathilde Wesendonck (1850) by Karl Ferdinand Sohn
Photo of Hans von Bülow, who conducted the premiere