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Another listener was the late Herbert von Karajan, who asked her to sing some Bach at the Salzburg Easter Festival. The conductor died before the performances, but she treasures the experience of rehearsing with him. "Bach was another world to me," she says. "At the beginning I was always in a rush. Karajan taught me to take the tempo tranquilly, to take a breath. This is something I use for everything." To those names, add Sir Georg Solti, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Chailly -- a stellar fan club...
What comes next for this young virtuoso? The opera schedule is daunting: The Barber in Houston next spring, her American debut; Don Giovanni in a heavyweight Salzburg production conducted by Barenboim in 1994; the Met's Cosi fan tutte the following season. Bartoli is happily caught up in her repertory, but her fans, as well as many opera managers, already ache to see her expand it. Why not the big-money operas -- Verdi and, above all, Carmen...
...more poignant by its having been written in a concentration camp. Forty years later, nearing the end of his life, Messiaen completed the masterpiece toward which his entire compositional life had been aiming: the opera St. Francois d'Assise, which will be staged anew this summer in Salzburg...
...program consists of a series of four conferences which are being held at Harvard, in New York City, and in Salzburg, Austria...
Mozart's native Salzburg is the high shrine of Mozartism. The festivities started Jan. 2, when the celebrated Salzburg Marionettes presented the first of the seven Mozart operas that the 78-year-old troupe has in its repertoire. It will tour Europe this spring and the U.S. in November. The Landestheater offers a new Magic Flute as well as a restaging of Peter Shaffer's popular but preposterous Amadeus. For those seeking knowledge, an international symposium will provide 130 scholarly papers in four languages...