Born in Vienna, Kleiber studied in Prague. In 1923, after conducting a stirring performance of Beethoven's Fidelio at the Berlin State Opera, he became that institution's music director.
He was known for his interpretations of the stand...

IT. L’omaggio che i Wiener Philharmoniker hanno tributato all’ottantesimo anniversario del direttore Carlos Kleiber ha mobilitato a Ljubljana il pubblico internazionale dei grandi eventi, attirato dalla fama dell'orchest...

Erich Kleiber was born in Vienna, a hundred-twenty years ago, on August 5th, 1890. His sudden death at early age of 65, on January 27, 1956, deprived the world of one of the most distinguished conductors. Our sense of loss in creases ev...

Въведение на Angelo o Demone?
На 19 юли 2004 г.,светът узна за смъртта на Карлос Клайбер, която бе настъпила няколко дни преди това. Изглежда невероятно, че в епохата на компютрите и глобалните комуникации, кончината на най-великия дири...

When Carlos Kleiber made these recordings of the rehearsals and concert
performance of the overtures to Die Fledermaus and Der Freischütz with the
Südfunk-Sinfonieorchester in the spring of 1970 – a documentary made

What follows is a translation of “Un Genio Che Incantava: Zeffirelli Ricorda Kleiber” by Valerio Cappelli. It was published in AMADEUS, no. 184, March 2005, pp. 42-44.
[Prefatory paragraph to article]: Franco Zeffirelli, one...

THE SMILE OF MUSIC: A Portrait of Carlos Kleiber
by Andrea Ottonello, RAI Radio3 , 2008.
Translated by Robert McGinn

Transcript of BBC Radio Program on CK, broadcast 9/26/2009. You can hear and download the whole program at: http://www.mediafire.com/?wn4lnykyqkk
Participants:
UA (unidentified announcer)

Това е книга за Ерих Клайбер, когото без никакво колебание можем да наречем (заедно с Вилхелм Фуртвенглер) един от най-великите диригенти на всички времена. Употребявам смело тази превъзходна степен, защото след смъртта на Караян, Карлос...

A rare few personalities, who have rendered outstanding services in various spheres of life, have created a new system of chronology in their fields, to which they have devoted the best of their creative potential. In music such figures ...

Birth and Beginnings
Erich Kleiber was born on August 5, 1890 in Vienna. Both sides of his family hailed from southern Germany, though his parents met and married in Prague, then moved to Vienna in search of employment. Both parents wer...

The Legend in His own Time - Carlos Kleiber (1930-2004).
(see video)
In Ricordo di Carlos Kleiber by Clemens Hellberg