Karajan | Karajan artists: Rita Streich – Karajan’s only Zerbinetta

12 December

Karajan artists: Rita Streich – Karajan’s only Zerbinetta

Rita Streich was – like Wilma Lipp and Erika Köth – a singer cast by Karajan in the 1950s and 1960s when he was in need of a coloratura soprano with strong nerves...

27 June

Karajan artists: Anton Dermota – the concert tenor

The lyric tenor Anton Dermota was a member of the legendary “Mozart ensemble” at the Vienna State Opera, an ensemble assembled...

16 May

Karajan artists: Helga Dernesch – Brünnhilde, Isolde, Leonore

Helga Dernesch was the most important female singer for Karajan’s great Wagner projects in the period between 1969 and 1973. She appeared as Isolde in “Tristan und Isolde”...

22 March

Karajan artists: Rolando Panerai – “a most balanced man”

Rolando Panerai never embodied a title role in a Karajan production, so unlike with other soloists it is difficult to name the Karajan/Panerai production. But Panerai worked...

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