Open-minded Christian Thielemann will conduct the next Ring at La Scala
NewsChristian Thielemann, 62, has received three Covid injections and is up for a fourth, if required. But he keeps an open mind: ‘Those who don’t get vaccinated have their reasons. I don’t want to judge them, even if I can’t see why myself.’
In a brisk interview with Kurier, he adds that his diary is fuller than ever since the Saxons refused him renewal in Dresden. Among other projects is a Wagner Ring cycle he will conduct at La Scala from 2024.
Good thing. Good choice. Chailly is not a Wagerian (even if he did an album of ouverture in the 90’s with the RCO). It’s good that they call Thielemann.
Chailly’s conducting of the Liebestod for Anna Netrebko is marvelous.
Yes, but that’s hardly the entire “Tristan & Isolde”. It’s a huge question of pacing.
That was what I was thinking of… but I recommend the Wagner Chailly Concertgebouw album from the 90’s
Well… If you can’t conduct that, you should be doing a different job. Even Ormandy could pull that off. Doesn’t mean he’s a Wagner conductor. One thing in the moment after 3-1/2 hours, and quite another as an excerpt in a recording studio.
1) “open-minded”?? The unvaccinated is responsible for the emergence of variants, for taxing the public health system, and yes, for transmitting the virus to fully vaccinated but still elderly grandma and killing her.
The unvaccinated deserves nothing, least of all an “open mind”.
2) Theilemann needs to be heard outside of Germany. It’s a good thing his diary is filled up elsewhere. Hopefully, a trip to America is scheduled.
Sounds like Thielemann is more tolerant and open-minded than you are.
At this moment in time for–yes–humanity, is single-mindedness, not open-mindedness. Tolerance has nothing to do with staying healthy and alive.
Pathetic. Think for yourself.
Should we be open-minded to the stupid, the antisocial, the irresponsible? Everybody who refuses a vaccin in these days, if not suffering from a medical condition that makes vccination impossible, is partaking in a killing game, willfully.
Come on John, we expect better from you.
We all love and worship Christian Thielemann.
Insofar as it’s possible for a national dish to worship anybody!! 🙂
3, 4 Covid vaccinations? Is anybody getting the same message as me – that these completely lack efficacy and have to be taken more and more often?? (When I think how Dr. Bret Weinstein was savaged for suggesting the same thing well over a year ago…!!!)
“We all love and worship (fill in the blank).” In the end, it doesn’t matter a whit.
I love wiener schnitzels! But to me they never talk.
Sally
It’s those over-confident celebrities who have secured their third jabs (just in time for Christmas) AND those selfish anti-vaxers who are currently dividing societies, whilst nourishing the spread new variants at both ends of the bimodal distribution.
So he wants to have it both ways? He gets the vaccine but excuses those who won’t? Terrible position for a public figure to take.
Simply saying “I can’t see why” doesn’t move the needle (sorry…) for public safety. That isn’t keeping an open mind; it is a lack of conviction. Man up.
Not at all, it’s respecting freedom of choice. Funny how people love to forget that when they’re feeling righteous.
Nice to see the intolerant, pro-vax nazis out in force.
Those masked pro-vax Wagnerians couldn’t care less about Stefan Mickisch.
They are too bothered about themselves and the system they belong to.
They never forget, never forgive, never love; they just take and consume, securing their own well-being.
Finally the Italians will learn to play Wagner. Finally.
Great to see that T is so open minded. Just as he was so caring for the general health and welfare of his musicians in Dresden when he insisted on performing Heldenleben with full forces right during the height of the COVID crisis last year
How many of the orchestra died, eh?
I’m happily unvaccinated and never felt better! I’d also avoid his Wagner just to be on the safe side.
Thielemann is a good choice, I expect. I’ve admired his Bruckner recordings. As for those contributors who think that urging folk to get vaxxed are fascists, what utter rot. Those who are deliberately avoiding the vaccinations – and I’m not talking about those who cannot have the vaccines for medical reasons – are just plain stupid. Enough of your lily-livered nonsense and grow up.