He and his wife are the Tom and Gisele of classical music.

His office is just a box to stand on: no walls, no doors, not even a chair. But when he’s done with his work on the podium, thousands of people rise up and cheer.

The life of Andris Nelsons is a heady experience. Famous? He’s that. Venerable organizations in Vienna, Leipzig, London and Boston eagerly vie for his time. He travels with a posse of hundreds, and performs in America, Europe and Asia. He makes millions.

He and his wife, soprano Kristine Opolais, have it even better than Tom and Gisele. Sometimes they work together. No 9 p.m. bedtime for these two. And likely no avocado ice cream either.

A year with the Boston Symphony Orchestra maestro includes industry awards, tours all over the globe, recordings of all kinds and concerts. Lots of concerts. Toss in some photo shoots, first pitches at Fenway Park, a rogue appearance as a trumpeter, and some toe-stubbing remarks about sexual harassment, and it will come as no surprise that our arms-akimbo maestro and his family will spend the holidays far away from it all, at his home in beloved Latvia.

Give the guy a rest.

Nelsons’ 2017 began typically enough, with concerts in England and in Dortmund, Germany — where he is artist-in-residence — and then in Boston. But a February announcement that his second Shostakovich recording on Deutsche Grammophon won a Grammy Award — just as last year’s initial recording did — soon added another layer of gilt to the conductor’s recording trophies.

If the record industry is dead, someone forgot to tell Nelsons. Deutsche Grammophon has him recording all the Shostakovich symphonies with the BSO. All the Beethoven symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic. All the Bruckner symphonies with the Gewandhaus Orchestra. That’s about three dozen symphonies, if you’re counting.

The BSO has released Nelsons’ live performances of all the Brahms symphonies on its own label as well. Toss in the Strauss wind music (with Alexi Ogrintchouk and the Royal Concertgebouw, on BIS), piano concertos with Stephen Hough and the City of Birmingham Symphony on Hyperion, and some Puccini with Opolais on Orfeo — not to mention his inclusion on the $200 BSO box set, released just in time for your holiday shopping pleasure — and Nelsons might be singlehandedly keeping the classical music recording industry alive.