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18 MAY 2023

Spotlight Tchaikovsky: “Romeo and Juliet”

Like many of his early masterworks, Tchaikovsky’s overture “Romeo and Juliet” had a difficult genesis...

11 MAY 2023

Spotlight Strauss: “Don Quixote”

“Don Quixote” is a sort of a mixture between a tone poem, based on Cervantes’ satirical novel “Don Quijote de la Mancha”, and a sinfonia concertante...

11 MAY 2023

Karajan artists: Mstislav Rostropovich – ambassador with the cello

Mstislav Rostropovich was a cellist and conductor and a unique musician in the second half of the 20th century. There is hardly any other instrumentalist...

4 MAY 2023

Karajan artists: Agnes Baltsa – Carmen meets Octavian

Agnes Baltsa is a Greek singer, born in 1944. She worked with Karajan over 15 years and in his final years was his first choice for demanding mezzo parts...

4 MAY 2023

Spotlight Bizet: “Carmen”

Although Georges Bizet was a stunning piano virtuoso and composed various operas and orchestral works, he is often seen...

28 APRIL 2023

Karajan in Lucerne

Karajan and the Lucerne Festival – this is a story of constant fidelity. Except the Salzburg Festivals, there has been no festival that Karajan joined so constantly than the Swiss music Mecca at the Lake Lucerne...

20 APRIL 2023

Karajan artists: Gundula Janowitz – famous last songs

Gundula Janowitz started her career in her early twenties and soon performed with every superlative conductor of her time...

14 APRIL 2023

Karajan artists: Renata Tebaldi – “the voice of an angel”

Renata Tebaldi was one of the great Italian divas of the 20th century. For many opera lovers she was the Desdemona, the Aida of all time...

14 APRIL 2023

Karajan artists: Glenn Gould – the incomparable

There have never been reproducing musicians whose art of interpretation has been so intimately connected with technical novelties and media innovation as Karajan and Glenn Gould...