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Bayreuth (dpa) - The Bayreuth Festival wants to retain its previous music director Christian Thielemann (61).
How, however, is still unclear.
“The Bayreuth Festival intends to sign a new contract with Christian Thielemann,” announced the festival on Wednesday upon request.
"The tasks and the resulting title are still being clarified."
Thielemann has been music director since 2015, but his contract will expire in a few days at the end of the year.
Thielemann, chief conductor of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, is probably the most important conductor on the Green Hill.
With one exception in 2011, there has not been a festival year in the last two decades without Thielemann at the podium.
He is only the second conductor after Felix Mottl (1856-1911) who conducted all ten Wagner operas performed in Bayreuth on the Green Hill.
In 2010 he became musical advisor to the festival before becoming music director five years later.
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