Der Dirigent Herbert von Karajan löst seit jeher Erregung aus. Die Berliner Philharmoniker tragen mit einer eigenen Edition von Live-Mitschnitten neu dazu bei – jedenfalls künstlerisch. Das ist sehr ...
Herbert von Karajan was born 100 years ago. He made more than 1,000 recordings, and is estimated to have had LP, CD, and video sales in excess of 200 million. He is perhaps best known for his 1962 ...
Playwright Peter Danish—a long-time writer and observer of the opera and classical music scene in New York and around the world—wrote LAST CALL, just finishing a limited run at Broadway’s New World ...
Leonard Bernstein needs to “see a man about a horse.” After excusing himself from a confrontational meeting with his bête noire, Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan, a genius who joined the Nazi ...
Sein Stil ist neuartig. Karajan ist charismatisch – und er ist jung! Drei Tage vor dem Berliner Debüt hat er seinen 30. Geburtstag gefeiert. Für seinen Karriereweg musste der gebürtige Salzburger ...
These colossal conductors are played by two of Germany's leading actresses: the American-born Helen Schneider as Leonard Bernstein, and Lucca Züchner as Herbert von Karajan. A Nazi Party member from ...
The death of the conductor Herbert von Karajan at the age of 81 unleashed a torrent of vitriol that surprised even those who, during his lifetime, found themselves resistant to his style of conducting ...
In seinem neuen Buch über Herbert von Karajan bezieht sich der Historiker Michael Wolffsohn auch auf den Schoa-Überlebenden ...
Richard Wagner conceived his Ring des Nibelungen as combining voice, orchestra, acting and settings into a perfect expressive unity, a “total artwork.” That phrase could very nearly describe ...
“I cannot attain a really deep expression of a work,” says European Conductor Herbert von Karajan, 58, “when someone stages it who does not see with my eyes, hear with my ears, and have my own heart.” ...
A classic Gramophone article, by HC Robbins Landon, March 1964 SCENE I. A warm summer's day in Salzburg. The square in front of the Festspielhaus is the scene of subdued activity; from within come ...