On 25 May (19.00), the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, one of the oldest orchestras in the world, will perform under the baton of Christian Thielemann at the Mariinsky II. The ensemble will come to St Petersburg as part of their European tour, which also includes concerts in Moscow, Kaliningrad, Paris, Lucerne, and Baden-Baden.
The programme for the Mariinsky II performance includes the overture to Carl Maria von Weber's opera Oberon, Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 4, and Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the featured soloist Denis Matsuev, who has held the honorary position of artist-in-residence at the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden since October 2017. This season the Russian pianist has already performed with the orchestra at the Semperoper multiple times. This season the Russian pianist has already performed with the orchestra at the Semperoper multiple times.
The Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden traces its origins to the middle of the 16th century. At different times the Staatskapelle was headed by famous musicians, such as Heinrich Schütz, Johann Adolph Hasse, Carl Maria von Weber and Richard Wagner; in the 20th and 21st centuries – by conductors Fritz Reiner, Karl Böhm, Herbert Blomstedt, Giuseppe Sinopoli, and Bernard Haitink. The Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden has a many-year-long connection to Richard Strauss; nine of the composer’s operas were premiered at the Semperoper with the participation of the ensemble. The orchestra still takes part in the Semperoper productions recordings, tours abroad, and releases music. Recent additions include DVD and BluRay versions of Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin (featuring Anna Netrebko) and Die Walküre performances from the 2017 Salzburg Easter Festival.
Since 2012 Christian Thielemann has been chief conductor of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden. He started his career working as Herbert von Karajan's assistant; he went on to become Generalmusikdirektor of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Thielemann has collaborated with many symphony and opera ensembles, including the Munich Philharmonic and the Vienna Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Vienna State Opera, and the Metropolitan Opera. Thielemann is a regular conductor at the Bayreuth Festival, following his début in 2000. He has been Musical Advisor of the festival since 2010. In 2013 Christian Thielemann was named Artistic Director of Salzburg Easter Festival. Christian Thielemann’s core repertoire consists of German and Austrian Romantic music. His performances of Richard Wagner’s operas (including the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen) and those of Richard Strauss were critically acclaimed. Apart from operas, the conductor has recorded all of Ludwig van Beethoven’s and Robert Schumann’s symphonies, orchestra pieces and fragments from operas by Carl Maria von Weber, Albert Lortzing, Johannes Brahms, Anton Bruckner, Hans Pfitzner, Arnold Schoenberg and other composers.
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