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 ...

Based on a real-life meeting between two musical greats, the Jewish maestro confronts his adversary, conductor and former Nazi Herbert von Karajan, in off-Broadway’s “Last Call.” For much of the 20th ...

The brilliant but controversial Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan was born 100 years ago Saturday. To commemorate the occasion, his record labels have been busy reissuing much of Karajan's vast ...

There are two different approaches these days to writing about the most celebrated living musicians. The first is hagiographical, with the musical sainthood in question arising less from beauty of ...

Although illness prevented Herbert von Karajan from conducting the Berlin Philharmonic on its autumn tour of the United States and Japan, the conductor has been very much in the consciousness of the ...

The conductor – who led the Berlin Philharmonic from 1956 to 1989 – is the subject of a new BBC documentary. But he remains an enigmatic figure, whose musical approach sounds a false note in today’s ...

THE newest and most formidable resident of the Metropolitan Opera is Herbert von Karajan, the celebrated Austrian maestro, who will make his American operatic debut this week with a new production of ...

John Bridcut's superb profile surveyed the Salzburg-born Karajan as if he were Mont Blanc or the Matterhorn, considering the contradictions in his character as though studying aspects of the landscape ...

For great conductors—at least for those who make it that far—their ninth decade is often their most magnificent; it is also, alas, their last in which to perform. Toscanini, Monteux, Walter, Stokowski ...

Something creepy is happening in the world of classical music. It started a few months ago, when a long-forgotten face started to appear on posters in record shops. Soon it spread to billboards and ...

Herbert von Karajan was quite an anglophile. He spoke the language, though his speech was seldom clear, even in his German mother tongue. He relished being prised from his native Austria to conduct ...