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

20 September

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

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

04 July

Karajan artists: Peter Hofmann – Parsifal and rock music

What we turn to is certainly one of the most unusual careers among Karajan’s artistic partners. Karajan cast Peter Hofmann for the title-role in his “Parsifal”...

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”...

18 April

Spotlight Wagner: “The Valkyrie”

Richard Wagner’s “The Valkyrie” is a complete opera and also part of the greatest cycle in classical music, “The Ring of the Nibelung”. Karajan’s interpretation of “The Valkyrie”...

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