The Magic Flute

12 December

Karajan artists: Rita Streich – Karajan’s only Zerbinetta

Rita Streich was – like Wilma Lipp and Erika Köth – a singer cast by Karajan in the 1950s and 1960s when he was in need of a coloratura soprano with strong nerves...

01 December

Karajan artists: Erika Köth – Queen and chamber maid

Karajan had little need for coloratura sopranos but for two standards of his repertoire they were indispensable – “The Magic Flute” and “Die Fledermaus”. For both operas he worked with the German singer Erika Köth...

27 September

Karajan artists: Reri Grist – Karajan’s woodbird

When Karajan recorded and staged “Siegfried” at the Easter Festival in 1969...

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...

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1917 1959 1964 recording 1965 1974 1980 1980s 20th-century music Aachen Aase Nordmo-Loevberg Abu Hassan Academia di Santa Cecilia accompanist Adagio Adagio for Strings Adam Adele African American Agnes Baltsa Agnus Dei Aida Alain Fondary Alan Blyth Alban Berg Alberich Albinoni Aldo Protti Alexis Weissenberg Alfred Cortot Alice Ford Alpine Symphony Also sprach Zarathustra alto American American music American orchestra American singers American tour Amonasro André Previn Anna Tomowa-Sintow Anne-Sophie Mutter Anneliese Rothenberger Antiche danze ed arie Suite No. 3 Anton Dermota Antonietta Stella Antonio Antonio Meneses Arabella ARD music competition aria Ariadne auf Naxos Aribert Reimann Arnold Schoenberg Arona Arthur Honegger artistry Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Arturo Toscanini Astrid Varnay Athen Conservatory Orchestra audition B minor Mass Bach Bachfest ballet Barbara Hendricks Barbarina baritone Baron Mirko Zeta baroque opera baroque repertoire baroque trumpet concertos Bartók bass-baritone bassoon Bavarian State Orchestra Bayreuth Beaux Arts Trio Beethoven Beethoven's 1st Symphony Beethoven's 250th birthday Beethoven's 2nd Symphony Beethoven's 3rd Symphony Beethoven's 5th Symphony Beethoven's 6th Symphony Beethoven's 8th Symphony Beethoven's 9th Symphony Beethoven's C minor Concerto Beethoven's Ninth Beethoven's Triple Concerto Berlin Berlin Philharmonic Berlin Philharmonie Berlin State Opera Berlioz Bernd Aldenhoff Bernhard Paumgartner Birgit Nilsson Blondchen Blumenmädchen Böhm Boléro Boris Blacher Boris Godunov Brahms Brandenburg Concerto Brigitte Bardot British music Britten broadcast Bruckner Brucknerhaus Linz Brünnhilde Bruno Walter Brussels Bulgaria C minor mass Canio Capriccio Carl Maria von Weber Carl Orff Carlo Bergonzi Carlos Guichandut Carlos Kleiber Carmen Carnegie Hall cars cause célèbre Cavalleria rusticana Cavaradossi cellists Cesare Siepi chamber maid Charles Ives Chopin choral work Christa Ludwig Christel Goltz Christmas album Christoph Eschenbach Christoph von Dohnanyi Christoph Willibald Gluck Circle of Lights Clara Schumann classical music classical trumpet concertos Claudio Abbado Claudio Arrau Claudio Monteverdi Clemens Hellsberg Clemens Holzmeister Cleveland Orchestra Clouzot collaboration coloratura soprano coloraturas Compact Disc composers composing class concert films concert hall concert literature concert performance Concertgebouw Orchestra concertmaster Concerto for Orchestra conducting conducting class conductor conductor insights conductor's interpretation Consolations consonance contemporary composers conversations coproduction Coronation Mass Count Almaviva Covent Garden critics crucial moments cultural significance Daniel Barenboim Dantons Tod das Lied von der Erde David Bell David Oistrakh De temporum fine comoedia Debussy Delibes Dennis Brain Der Rosenkavalier der Wanderer Der Zigeunerbaron Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung Deutsche Grammophon dialogue Die Fledermaus Die Frau ohne Schatten Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Dieter David Scholz Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau digital recording Dimiter Usunow Dinu Lipatti dissonance Documentary Don Carlo Don Giovanni Don Pizarro Don Quixote Donizetti Donna Anna dramatic soprano Dresden Dresden Philharmonic Dvořák dynamic range Eberhard Waechter Edinburgh Festival Edith Mathis Edward Greenfield El Capitan Elektra Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Elizabethan theatre Elly Ney Elsa EMI engineering England ensemble Epidaurus Erda Erich Kraack Erich Kunz Erik Erik Werba Erika Köth Ernst Haeusserman Ernst von Karajan Ernst von Siemens Escamillo Ettore Bastianini Eugene Goossens Eugenio Fernandi Europe European celebrety European Union Anthem Euryanthe overture Eva Falstaff Fanfare Faninal Fantasia 1940 Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Felix Schmidt Felsenreitschule Ferenc Fricsay Ferruccio Furlanetto Feste Romane Festspielhaus Fiamma Izzo d' Amico Fidelio Figaro film film-makers first conducting Flaviano Labò Fletcher Henderson Floriana Cavalli Fontane di Roma Four Last Songs France Franck Franco Corelli Franz Endler Franz Grundheber Franz Ledwinka Franz Liszt Franz Sauer Franz Schmidt Fred Hamel Freischütz overture French cellist French cinema Friedenstag Friedrich Gulda Fritz Kortner Fritz Kothner Fritz Wunderlich funeral requiem galopps gardener Gareth Morris Generalmusikdirektor George Balanchine George Crumb George Gershwin George London Gerhard Stolze German repertoire German Requiem German singers German television German theatre Germany Germont Gerty Herzog Gesamtkunstwerk Gesualdo Gian Carlo Menotti Gianni Raimondi Ginette Neveu Giorgio Strehler Giselher Klebe Giulietta Simionato Giuseppe di Stefano Giuseppe Taddei Giuseppe Zampieri Giusto Cappone Glenn Gould Glyndebourne Götterdämmerung Gottfried Hornik Gottfried von Einem gramophone Graziella Sciutti Gré Brouwenstijn greater structure Grieg Guillaume Tell Gundula Janowitz Günter Rennert Gunther Günther Schneider-Siemßen Gustaf Gründgens Gustav Holst Gustav Mahler Haffner Symphony Hamburg Hanna Schwarz Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt Hans Hotter Hans Richter-Haaser Hans Sachs Hans Swarowsky Hans Werner Henze Hänsel und Gretel Haydn's Creation Heimo Erbse Heinrich der Vogler Heinrich Strobel Heinz Tietjen Heldentenor Helen Donath Helen Erwin Helga Dernesch Helmut Schmidt Henri-Georges Clouzot Herbert von Karajan Hermann Prey Hermann Winkler Hilary Finch Hilbert Hilde Konetzni Hilde Rössel-Majdan Hildegard Behrens historical recordings HMV Hofburg Hofopernorchester Hollywood Bowl hospital Hotel Sacher Hugo Shirley Hugo von Hofmannsthal human relationships Hummel Humperdinck Hungarian Hungarian Rhapsodies hypnosis I due Foscari I Pagliacci Il Trovatore inauguration Inge Borkh intermezzo interpretation interview Invitation to Dance Irmgard Seefried Isang Yun It Came Upon the Midnight Clear Italian Italian opera Italian orchestral music Italy Jacques Thibaud Janet Perry Japanese television Jean-Pierre Ponnelle Jess Thomas Johann Strauss I Johann Strauss II John Culshaw John Henry Hopkins John Philip Sousa John Stafford Smith Jon Vickers José Carreras José van Dam Josef Hofmann Josef Strauss Joseph Haydn Josephine Barstow Julia Binek Kaiserwalzer Kapellmeister Karajan Karajan's era Karl Böhm Karl Ridderbusch Karlsruhe Conservatory Kathleen Ferrier Katia Ricciarelli Kirstin Flagstad Klaus Donath Kolja Blacher Konzertante Musik Krystian Zimerman Künstlerleben Kurt Moll Kurwenal L'incoronazione di Poppea La Bohème La forza del destino La Scala La Traviata La vérité Lanfranco Rasponi Le Rossignol Le sacre du printemps Le salaire de la peur leadership Leipzig Leonard Bernstein Leonie Rysanek Leonore Ouverture Leontyne Price Leopold Mozart Les diaboliques Les Préludes letters Lied singer Lieder Liège Lisa della Casa live recording living nature Ljuba Welitsch Lohengrin London Lord Snowdon Los Angeles Philharmonic Louise Brooks Lübeck Lubka Kolessa Lucerne Lucerne Festival Lucia di Lammermoor Luciano Pavarotti Luis Lima lute songs Madama Butterfly madrigals maestro suggeritore Magnificat Mahler Marcello Margarethe Wallmann Margherita Roberti Maria Callas Maria Cebotari Maria Ivogün Mario del Monaco 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 Metropolitan Opera Mexico mezzo Micaëla Michel Schwalbé Milan military officer Mirella Freni Missa Solemnis Monteverdi renaissance Mozart Mozart ensemble Mozart's Requiem Mozarteum Mstislav Rostropovich Munich Murder in the Cathedral music critique music making music promoter music scandal Musica Giocosa musical innovation musical interpretation musical legacy musical performance Mussorgsky Nanetta National Theatre Munich Nelson Mass Neue Zürcher Zeitung New Year's Eve New Year's Eve Concert New York New York Philharmonic New York Times Magazine Nicolae Herlea Nicolai Gedda Nicolai Ghiaurov nightingale Norma Notre Dame Nuremberg Oberon overture Ochs Ode to Joy open air concert opera opera production Opernkapellmeister Oralia Dominguez oratorio Orchester-Fantasie Orchestra de Teatro Colón Buenos Aires orchestral challenge orchestral conducting orchestral music orchestral repertoire orchestral work Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Orchestre Radio-Symphonique organ Organ Ensemble Wolfgang Karajan Organ Symphony organist Orlando di Lasso Osaka Oscar Oscar Fried Otello Otto Edelmann Otto Klemperer Otto Strasser Ottorino Respighi overture Paganini Variations Pagliacci Pamina Pandora's Box Panerai Papagena Paris Parkinson Parsifal Pasadena Paul Czinner Paul Plishka Paul Schöffler Paul van Kempen pedagogues Pelléas et Mélisande period instruments Peter Busse Peter Hofmann Peter Schmoll Peter Uehling Philharmonia Orchestra philosopher phonograph photography Pia Bernauer pianist piano piano concerto piano sonata Nr.3 piccolo Piero Cappuccilli Pierre Cochereau Pierre Fournier Pini di Roma Pizzetti Plácido Domingo playback polkas Pope Paul VI premiere controversy presentation of the silver rose principal conductor prodigy producer production Prokofiev Puccini Queen of the Night Queens College Radames radio interview RAI Orchestra Roma RAI Orchestra Torino Ralph Lawton Ralph Vaughan Williams Ravel recitatives recognition scene record label recording recording collaboration recording cycles recording legacy recording session recording style Régine Crespin rehearsal Remo Giazotti Renata Scotto Renata Tebaldi repertoire Requiem Reri Grist review Rhapsody in Blue Rheingold rhythm rhythmic complexity Riccardo Muti 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 sacred works Saint-Saëns Salome Salzburg Salzburg cathedral Salzburg Easter Festival Salzburg Festival Samuel Barber Sandman Scandinavian singers Scarpia Schiller Schubert Schumann Seiji Ozawa Semiramide Sena Jurinac Sharpless Shostakovich Shura Cherkassky Sibelius Siegfried Siegmund Sigmund Nimsgern Sigurd Björling silver tone singer singer-interpreter singing lessons Singverein Slovenia slow movement Smetana snare drum society darling sociologist solo trumpeter soloist Sophie soprano South America tour Soviet Union sportsman St Louis Blues St Matthew Passion St Moritz Staatskapelle Berlin stage production Stars and Stripes Forever Stolzing Strauss Family Stravinsky Stravinsky reviews String Sonatas string vibrato studio recordings style icon Summertime Susanna Sviatoslav Richter swiss Switzerland symphonic poem symphony symphony orchestra Tamino Tannhäuser Tchaikovsky Tchaikovsky competition Te Deum teacher technical problems Telemann television broadcast television clip tenor Teresa Stich-Randall The Art of Conducting The Art of Fugue The Barber of Seville The Book with Seven Seals the Creation The Flying Dutchman The Four Seasons The Hunchback of Notre-Dame The Italian Girl in Algiers The Love of Danae The Magic Flute The Marriage of Figaro The Merry Widow The Messiah The Planets The Ring of the Nibelung The Rite of Spring The Silken Ladder The Star Spangled Banner The Thieving Magpie The Unanswered Question The Valkyrie theater Theodor W. Adorno Thomas Brandis Thomas Stewart three ladies Tito Gobbi Tosca Toscanini transcription Triple Concerto Tristan und Isolde trumpet player Turiddu twelve-tone work Ulm Un Ballo in Maschera United Nations United States USA Variations for orchestra Vatican Venus Verdi Verdi Requiem Victor de Sabata Vienna Vienna Conservatory Vienna Musikverein Vienna Philharmonic Vienna State Opera Vienna Symphony Vinson Cole viola violin concerto violinist virtuoso viruosity Vivaldi voice Voice of the Bird Wagner Waldemar Kmentt Walter Gieseking Walter Legge waltzes Wanderer main parts We Three Kings of Orient Are Webern West Side Story Wieland Wagner Wilhelm Furtwängler Wilhelm Kempff William Tell William Walton Wilma Lipp Woglinde Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Karajan Wolfgang Schneiderhan Wolfgang Stresemann Wolfgang Wagner Wolfgang Windgassen woodwinds world tour World War II World's Fair Wotan Yehudi Menuhin Yo Yo Ma Zdenka Zerbinetta Zerlina Zoltan Kelemen Zurich Opera

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