Thomas Schippers was an American conductor, one of the most brilliant young conductors of his generation. He was especially associated with opera and with the Metropolitan Opera.

In the Pristine catalogue he appears conducting Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer at the Met, with George London and Leonie Rysanek.

Schippers’s conducting brought drive, theatrical instinct and sharp musical intelligence to opera, with a gift for keeping large stage structures alive.

His page is justified by stature and catalogue context. Schippers gives the Met Wagner shelf a young conductor’s voltage and clean dramatic pulse.