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Carlos Kleiber and the Liebestod from Bayreuth

What intrigued me about this video was the eerie dream-like quality, obviously from a backstage black & white monitor camera, of Carlos Kleiber conducting  Wagner's Tristan und Isolde at Bayreuth in 1975. The unseen soprano is Catarina Ligendza.




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Alan Sherrod serves up a big plate of nourishing commentary on the Knoxville classical music and fine arts scene.