18 April
Karajan artists: Hans Hotter – setting standards for Wagner
Hans Hotter was a major figure in Karajan’s Vienna years as artistic director (1956 – 1964)...
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Vienna State Opera
04 April
Spotlight Monteverdi: “L’incoronazione di Poppea”
Not many conductors in musical history have had a repertoire as broad as Karajan’s. But he is not usually associated with the music of Claudio Monteverdi. In November 1953...
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22 March
Karajan artists: Rolando Panerai – “a most balanced man”
“I worked with him many times. He is a wonderful artist whom I’ve always admired. […] He has always impressed me as a man of great good humour, and with a wonderful fund of stories.” Karajan about Rolando Panerai Rolando Panerai never embodied a title role in a Karajan production,…
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15 March
Spotlight Stravinsky: “Le sacre du printemps”
Karajan’s first approach to Stravinsky’s “Le sacre du printemps” came quite late, in 1962. At that time, the piece had been in the repertoire for a long time...
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