The announcement was eagerly awaited. The contract of the star conductor, of the state in the spring because of his allegedly authoritarian management style in the critique, was extended to five years.
Until 2027, Daniel Barenboim, General music Director of the Berlin state Opera is to remain Under the Linden, informed the conductor, together with the Berlin culture Senator Klaus Lederer on Tuesday. His current contract until the 31. July 2022 runs, was extended for a further five years.
Since 1992, the Maestro conducts the state Opera and was appointed by her orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin, as chief conductor for life.
That Barenboim wanted to stay in his double function as one of the most important musicians of Berlin and Germany, he had already expressed, provided his health to leave it, and the musicians wanted it to be so.
The sanitary question was settled, had a Barenboim said recently. The question to the musicians received in the spring of a certain amount of explosiveness , as some current and former members of the orchestra in a Report in the online magazine van and in the Bavarian radio about his management style publicly complained of had.
Matthias Schulz, artistic Director of the Staatsoper Berlin and Daniel Barenboim at the annual conference of the Staatsoper unter den Linden in March 2018
On Tuesday, the orchestra Board said, however, the state chapel is looking forward to further collaboration with Barenboim.
As one of the most famous classical artists in the world, Barenboim was born in Argentina. Later, his family moved to Israel, where he became a citizen. Daniel Barenboim was considered early as a piano-playing child Prodigy, and later distinguished himself as a conductor with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He is the co-founder of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, a group of young Israeli and Arab musicians; under his effect, the Barenboim-Said is founded in the Academy in Berlin and the Pierre Boulez hall was built. As a conductor and Pianist, the 76 remains in demand-Year-old continues to be in the world.