Wedding bells: Andris Nelsons remarries
mainThe Boston and Leipzig conductor has married Alice Heidler in a private ceremony in Bavaria.
The wedding took place in April and has just been confirmed.
No details have been released of the bride. An Alice Heidler is credited as the English translator of the memoirs of Andris’s agent, Hans Ulrich Schmid.
A wedding gift site exists for those wishing to donate to the preservation of the Bavarian countryside.
Andris’s first wife, the Latvian soprano Kristine Opolais, has posted pictures of herself with a new partner, a tenor at the Met.
Happy ever after.
I wish them luck.
Conductors are notoriously hard to live with. At home and at work.
I’m sure we all have our ideas of who fits on that list …
Thankfully, I can think of some others who are likely delightful people — onstage and off.
… and divas are not …, well, divas?
I worked with Andris Nelsons for several years. He’s one of the kindest, most self-effacing and good-natured artists in the entire business and I wish him all the best.
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If Nelsons donates an evening’s wage, then so will I.
Best wishes to the happy couple, and especially to the daughter of Nelsons and Opolais.
I believe this is Andris Nelsons’ third marriage, not his second. According to an article I read in (I believe) The Boston Globe, both he and Kristine Opolais were married to others when they met.
I wish Maestro Nelsons nothing but many years of personal happiness, and great music-making.
Why in the world would anyone bother?
I’ve not much experience with marriage, having married only once, but it seems to me that the more you do it, the better you get at it, as with most things.
Let’s hope his new wife can keep all the household doors open so he doesn’t concuss himself again. ..
And can you get an updated pic? He has had a beard for a few years.
A beard and a FEW pounds…
All that work and travel must make exercise and diet problematic. I wonder about health problems as he gets older. I remember and old Benny Hill line :”I think death is just nature’s way of telling you to slow down.”
“Of course, no-one ever body-shames a MALE performer…”
?? We just did.
Thanks for the info-he’s been wearing a wedding band. Speaking of the BSO, does anyone know where Tamara Smirnova is? She should be the acting concertmaster, but I haven’t seen her this year.
I’ve been wondering the same… she played every concert last year due to Malcom Lowe’s concussion. I’m thinking she is getting some needed rest.
Did you attend last week’s 11/2/19 concert? It belongs in the history books. Absolute perfection!
Shostakovich 12th this week …
DS 12 symphony dedicated to V.Lenin centenary 1970-who need it in Boston
She’s alright. You’ll see her in DSCH’s 12th
One of those Haitink recorded but didn’t perform in concert.
Off to Bavaria!
He would be the natural successor of Mariss.
I hope Andris is aware what supporting BUND actually means:
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One of the founders of BUND was a conductor – and walked away:
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/enoch-zu-guttenberg-ich-trete-aus-dem-bund-aus-11748130.html
Enoch zu Guttenberg was a charlatan.
So was Furtwängler.
No, he was a Kapellmeister, thorough, straightforward, classicist.
The happy couple.
He does a nice show on stage but his recordings are totally boring.Even when you watch him conducting and succeed in isolating his antics from his music you realize that the resulting music is mediocre at best.
The recordings are taken from live performances. I was just there last week when the Leipzig Orchestra played Strauss and they asked us to be quiet because they were recording.
3 marriages. Not a role model for young people.
At least, to my knowledge, she’s not a beard.
As long as you don’t beat your wife you are a good role model in this day and age.