Karajan | Karajan artists: Nicolai Gedda – contemporaries and Butterfly

22 JUNE 2023

Karajan artists: Nicolai Gedda – contemporaries and Butterfly

Nicolai Gedda was one of the leading lyric tenors of the 20th century and one of the most productive. He started to work with Karajan in 1952...

14 JUNE 2023

Karajan artists: Fritz Wunderlich – a short life and a singular voice

Millions of people, among them many singers like Luciano Pavarotti, consider him to be the greatest lyrical tenor of the 20th century...

14 JUNE 2023

Spotlight Haydn: “The Creation”

Joseph Haydn’s oratorio “The Creation” was one of his major works and one of his last masterpieces...

9 JUNE 2023

Spotlight Mozart: piano concertos

Karajan conducted Mozart piano concertos over his career but he concentrated on the Nos 20 – 24 and 27 plus the two works with more than one piano K 365 and K 242...

9 JUNE 2023

Karajan artists: Sena Jurinac – the silver with the silver rose

Srebrenka “Sena” Jurinac was a Bosnian soprano. She became a feted darling with opera audiences and was one of Karajan’s favourite singers for almost twenty years...

1 JUNE 2023

Karajan artists: Franco Corelli – “fire and blood”

The famous Italian tenor Franco Corelli worked with Karajan on two occasions, first as Manrico in a Salzburg “Trovatore” in 1962...

1 JUNE 2023

1969 – a year with Karajan

The year 1969 as an example. This is what Karajan managed to achieve within one single year...

25 MAY 2023

Spotlight Shostakovich: the tenth symphony

Dmitri Shostakovich and Karajan were about the same age. Karajan admired Shostakovich and he even admitted that if he had become a composer instead of a conductor...