Karajan artists: Lisa della Casa – Karajan’s Sophie and Marschallin
Regarding the popularity of Karajan’s first “Rosenkavalier” film in 1960 with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, it is not generally known that Karajan chose Lisa della Casa...
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Karajan artists: Tito Gobbi – the incomparable Falstaff
Recalling the great Italian singers Karajan worked with during the 1950s – del Monaco, di Stefano, Taddei...
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Spotlight Verdi: “Don Carlo”
Karajan told Richard Osborne about the repertoire at his first engagement in Ulm: “I was always grateful to Verdi...”
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Karajan artists: Otto Edelmann – a “noble man” as Sachs and Ochs
Otto Edelmann (the name means “noble man” in German) was a singer Karajan loved to work with. The bass-baritone from Vienna was “trained” by Karajan...
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