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)...
Read MoreHans Hotter was a major figure in Karajan’s Vienna years as artistic director (1956 – 1964)...
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!