Karajan | Spotlight Mozart: The Requiem

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...

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...

31 January

Karajan artists: Wilma Lipp – first mother then daughter

Wilma Lipp made her debut as an opera singer at the age of 17, became a member of the Vienna State Opera at 20, had her breakthrough as “Queen of the Night” at 23 and recorded the opera with Karajan when she was...

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