10 May
Spotlight Liszt: tone poems
European celebrity, conductor, music promoter, enthusiastic teacher, society darling, style icon, media star switching between public and monastic solitude – there are many aspects...
Read MoreEuropean celebrity, conductor, music promoter, enthusiastic teacher, society darling, style icon, media star switching between public and monastic solitude – there are many aspects...
Read MoreRichard 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”...
Read MoreKarajan was certainly a great conductor for Italian opera. But Italian orchestral music didn’t appear very often in his programmes – particularly if the music...
Read MoreNot 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...
Read MoreHere you can download the full curriculum vitae of Herbert von Karajan!