Christian Thielemann undergoes second leg operation
OrchestrasThe German conductor has postponed his return to duty after having a second bout of surgery on his Achilles heel. He has cancelled an appearance this weekend at the Janáček Brno Festival where he will be replaced by incoming Covent Garden chief, Jakub Hrusa.
Thielemann expects to resume at the Berlin Staatsoper some time next month.
We are all praying for him.
Achilles Heel injuries are extremely painful. I had a friend who had one and the pain was intense and took a while to resolve. Let’s hope for a speedy and minimally painful recovery for CT.
We all love CT.
He is the Friedrich Merz of classical music.
You know how to deliver an underhanded insult.
To whom?
But how does the surgeon know which is his second leg?
It’s the one next to his third leg.
What junior highschool do you and your up-voters attend?
Who said anything about him having two legs? He apparently only has one Achilles heel.
Gives new meaning to the encouragement to performers to ‘break a leg’. All good luck to him.
Surely you mean Achilles tendon. An Achilles heel is a myth-based idiom for a weak spot.
CT, born 1959, claims to be a contemporary of Richard Strauss.
Wishful thinking.
Source? Perhaps he, or someone else, just mistook the decade — Strauss died 8 September 1949; Thielemann born 1 April 1959 — and thought they had both been alive for 5-and-a-bit months.