Spotlight Puccini: “Tosca”
During every decade of his career, Karajan had Puccini operas in his repertoire and some of his recordings are looked on as the best of all...
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Karajan artists: Erika Köth – Queen and chamber maid
Karajan had little need for coloratura sopranos but for two standards of his repertoire they were indispensable – “The Magic Flute” and “Die Fledermaus”. For both operas he worked with the German singer Erika Köth...
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Spotlight Blacher: Five orchestral works
Boris Blacher was – together with Orff – the contemporary German composer Karajan performed most often but...
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Karajan artists: Lisa della Casa – Karajan’s Sophie and Marschallin
Regarding the popularity of Karajan’s first “Rosenkavalier” film in 1960 with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, it is not generally known that Karajan chose Lisa della Casa...
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Spotlight Mahler: The Ninth Symphony
It is a well-known fact that Karajan’s engagemant with Mahler was an episode. Unlike other great symphonic composers, Mahler wasn’t regularly on Karajan’s programmes...
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Karajan artists: Tito Gobbi – the incomparable Falstaff
Recalling the great Italian singers Karajan worked with during the 1950s – del Monaco, di Stefano, Taddei...
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Karajan artists: Vinson Cole – from audition straight to Salzburg
For a young singer it could definitely pay off to do an audition with Karajan. In later years, Karajan had...
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Spotlight Verdi: “Don Carlo”
Karajan told Richard Osborne about the repertoire at his first engagement in Ulm: “I was always grateful to Verdi...”
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Spotlight Ives: “The Unanswered Question”
Karajan conducted Samuel Barber’s famous “Adagio for Strings” eight times in concert but there has been no recording of it so it seems that the live recording of Charles Ives’ “The Unanswered Question” is the only piece...
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Karajan artists: Otto Edelmann – a “noble man” as Sachs and Ochs
Otto Edelmann (the name means “noble man” in German) was a singer Karajan loved to work with. The bass-baritone from Vienna was “trained” by Karajan...
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