The Valkyrie

Spotlight Weber: seven overtures

Carl Maria von Weber was Karajan’s composer for the really important moments. It is astonishing that Weber appears...

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Karajan artists: Astrid Varnay – “the burning torch”

Four broadcast recordings, nine performances – Karajan and Astrid Varnay didn’t do all that much together but...

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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”...

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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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