Thielemann returns with his favourite opera

Thielemann returns with his favourite opera

Opera

norman lebrecht

December 05, 2024

After a longer than expected absence for two leg surgeries, Christian Thielemann is back rehearsing at the Vienna State Opera.

The work is a lifelong favourite – Hans Pfitzner’s Palestrina, about a composer who showed the Pope what God really wants.

Thielemann made his Covent Garden debut with this long and winding opera in 1996. Has he ever been back?

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