Orchestra pit footage has turned up of Herbert von Karajan conducting Tosca at the Salzburg East Festival in March 1989, four months before he died.
The camera is focused on the conductor.
The tenor you can hear is Luciano Pavarotti.
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Message received (and see the bottom line): Press Release (WASHINGTON)—The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) is excited to announce a new concert titled Dolly Parton’s Threads: My Songs in Symphony. This remarkable program, scheduled for June 26 and […]
An epoch has ended. Alastair Macaulay reports from Glyndebourne: Tonight, the British baritone Thomas Allen, aged seventy-nine, announced from the Glyndebourne stage that this had been his final performance; I wish I had been there. […]
Here’s another rare memento of Myra, ten years after the previous collectible. She has a splendidly leisured way of telling an anecdote. The post Myra Hess: the Proms interview appeared first on Slippedisc.
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