Jean Cocteau

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...

20 February

Karajan artists: Martha Mödl – the ultimate Klytämnestra

For Karajan Martha Mödl was an indispensable singer in the 1950s and 60s. She worked with him at almost every crucial stage of his career after the war...

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Mario Petri Mark Zeltser Marschallin Martha Mödl Marzelline Masetto Maurice André Maurice Ravel Maurice Rosengarten Maurizio Pollini Max Reinhardt media star meditation Meistersinger melody Mendelssohn mentorship Mercedes Metamorphosen Metropolitan Opera Mexico mezzo Micaëla Michel Schwalbé Milan Milhaud Mili Balakirev military officer minute of silence Mirabellgarten Mirella Freni Missa Papae Marcelli Missa Solemnis Modest Mussorgsky Monteverdi renaissance Montserrat Caballé motets Mozart Mozart ensemble Mozart's Requiem Mozarteum Mstislav Rostropovich Munich Murder in the Cathedral music critique Music for Strings music making music promoter music scandal Musica Giocosa musical innovation musical interpretation musical legacy musical performance Mussorgsky Nanetta narrator National Theatre Munich Nelson Mass Neue Zürcher Zeitung New Year's Concert New Year's Eve New Year's Eve Concert New York New York Philharmonic New York Times Magazine NHK Japan Nicolae Herlea Nicolai Gedda 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Tebaldi repertoire Requiem Reri Grist review Rhapsodie Espagnole Rhapsody in Blue Rheingold rhythm rhythmic complexity Riccardo Muti Richard Dehmel Richard Osborne Richard Storrs Willis Richard Strauss Richard Wagner Rigoletto Rita Streich Robert Craft Robert Schumann Rocco rock singer rococo setting Roger Vaughn Rolando Panerai Roman trilogy romantic piano concerto Ronald Wilford Rubinstein Rudolf Bing Rudolf Schock Rudolf Streng Ruggero Raimondi Ruler of the Spirits Russian music sacred works Saint-Saëns Salome Salvator mundi Salzburg Salzburg cathedral Salzburg Easter Festival Salzburg Festival Samuel Barber Sandman Satie Scandinavian singers Scarpia Schiller Schubert Schumann Second Empire Second Viennese School Seiji Ozawa Semiramide Sena Jurinac Sharpless Sheherazade shellac Shostakovich Shura Cherkassky Sibelius Siegfried Siegmund Sigmund Nimsgern Sigurd Björling silver tone singer singer-interpreter singing lessons Singverein sixth symphony Slovenia slow movement Smetana snare 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