Karajan | Karajan artists: Gottlob Frick – improvising Wagner

27 March

Karajan artists: Gottlob Frick – improvising Wagner

Gottlob Frick was a basso profundo at the Vienna State Opera in the 1950s and 60s who performed no fewer than 88 times with Karajan...

27 March

Spotlight Mozart: The Requiem

This is really a farewell piece. The Requiem was Mozart’s last work (completed by his pupil Süßmayr) and it was performed at Karajan’s memorial service...

20 March

Karajan artists: Jean Cocteau – the poet as the speaker

No wonder Karajan was fascinated. Jean Cocteau was one of the last universal artists, a poet, painter, actor, filmmaker and stage designer. There was simply no one in Parisian artistic circles...