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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...

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20 December

Spotlight Schmidt: the “Notre Dame” intermezzo

Karajan never had the slightest intention to be a composer and none of the composers he knew personally...

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20 September

Karajan artists: Edith Mathis – a soprano for “heaven’s delights”

Edith Mathis (1938 - 2025) was a Swiss soprano who worked intensely with Karajan in the 1970s. No wonder their collaboration revolved largely...

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