Christian Thielemann will inaugurate the 2021/2022 Symphonic Season of the Teatro alla Scala on 25, 26 and 27 November. The famous Berlin conductor replaces the announced Esa-Pekka Salonen who, indisposed, will return to La Scala on April 29 with the Orchester de Paris for the cycle of Guest Orchestras.
Thielemann, who has not directed the Scala musicians since 1993, although he returned to Piermarini in 2008 at the head of the Münchner Philharmoniker and in 2017 with the Staatskapelle Dresden, confirms the first part of the program, which includes the Vier Lieder op. 27 by Richard Strauss with soprano Camilla Nylund, while after the break he will conduct Johannes Brahms’ Symphony No. 4.
Universally regarded as one of the most prestigious heirs of the German conducting tradition, Thielemann was born in Berlin into a musical family and began his professional career in 1978 as a master collaborator at the Deutsche Oper. In 1988 he became Germany’s youngest “Generalmusikdirektor” in Nuremberg, before returning with this role to Deutsche Oper for seven years from 1997. From 2004 to 2011 Thielemann was Director of the Münchner Philharmoniker and from the start of the 2012/2013 season. he headed the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden as principal director, a position he held until May 2021. (ANSA).
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