Following a performance of Richard Strauss‘s Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Wiener Staatsoper on 14 October 2023, conductor Christian Thielemann (who is particularly in the news after being appointed to replace Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin) has been made an Honorary Member of the Vienna State Opera. Since his debut in 1987 with Così fan tutte, he has conducted more than 60 performances in the pit of the prestigious Austrian opera house.

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 Christian Thielemann © Matthias Creutziger