Isabel Karajan

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Isabel Karajan (born June 25, 1960 in Vienna ) is an Austrian actress . She is the daughter of Herbert von Karajan and Eliette von Karajan and the older sister of the musician Arabel Karajan.

Life

Isabel Karajan studied acting in Vienna and Paris after graduating from high school . She received her first engagements at the theaters in Zurich and Stuttgart, at the Thalia Theater Hamburg, at the Theater Der Kreis in Vienna and at the Théâtre National de la Colline. From 1995 to 1998 Isabel Karajan played the Guten Werke in Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival . Among other things, she was seen in Avignon and Adelaide / Australia as well as at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, at the Schauspielhaus Stuttgart, at the Münchner Kammerspiele and at the Schaubühne Berlin. In 2000 she appeared in "Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher" by Arthur Honegger at the Saito-Kinen Festival in Japan. She has worked with the directors Jorge Lavelli, Jürgen Flimm , Jürgen Gosch , Thomas Langhoff , Klaus Michael Grüber , Nils Peter Rudolph , George Tabori , among others .

It is the extraordinary projects that are close to Isabel Karajan's heart. For several years she has been developing her own projects for music theater performances with solo instruments, chamber music or a large orchestra with directors such as Klaus Ortner , Jorge Lavelli, Julian Pölsler , Christina Pfrötschner and others. At the Shostakovich Days in Gohrisch, the Salzburg Easter Festival , the Diaghilev Festival by Currentzis in Perm, the Soli Deo Gloria Festival in Goslar and at the Kfar Blum Festival in Israel, she presented “Miss. Death meets Mr. Shostakovich ”, a staged collage about fear with chamber music by Shostakovich and texts by his contemporaries. She appeared on stage with members of the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra in Stravinsky's “Die Geschichte vom Soldier” and also played “Eight Songs for a Mad King” by Peter Maxwell Davies . At the Saito-Kinen Festival in Japan she appeared as "Jeanne d`Arc au bûcher" by Arthur Honegger . In 2015, under the direction of Julian Pölsler, “Die Feuerprobe” was created with poems by Christine Lavant and Op. 40 by Shostakovich. In addition, Isabel Karajan created a word-music collage for a Midsummer Night's Dream in collaboration with the director Christina Pfrötschner. In 2016, Isabel Karajan appeared in Bernstein's "Candide" with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra under Jeffray Tate. This was followed in 2017 by Edgar A. Poe's “The Mask of Red Death” at the Swiss Alp Classic Festival in Andermatt with Clemens Hellsberg and members of the Vienna Philharmonic . In the summer of 2018 she performed with the composer Beat Furrer at the Salzburg Festival with an interpretation of the “Desert Book” fragment by Ingeborg Bachmann . As the leading actress she was involved in the development and successful world premiere of the opera “Stillhang” by Christian Spitzenstätter in December 2018, directed by Klaus Ortner. She told Shakespeare's “Midsummer Night's Dream” in the version by F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy from the perspective of an orchestral violist together with the Staatskapelle Dresden and the conductor Vladimir Jurowski on three concert evenings in the Semper Opera in Dresden in 2019. Most recently she was invited to the Shostakovich Days in Gohrisch in June 2019 to perform Prokofiev's “Peter and the Wolf” in the version by Loriot together with the conductor Petr Popelka and the “Kapelle 21” (members of the Saxon State Orchestra Dresden) . Much to the delight of the numerous visitors of all ages, she simply told the famous story with the selfie camera on her iPhone.

She can be seen in many film and television productions with directors such as Wolfgang Murnberger , Holger Barthel , Nina Companéez , Alain-Michel Blanc, Erhard Riedlsperger , Michi Riebl , Rupert Henning and Patricia Mazuy.

Own music / theater projects

  • Hennir , by Antonio Fian, (director: Hans-Peter Horner), with Isabel Karajan, world premiere at Theater Nestroyhof Hamakom Vienna 2009
  • 8 Songs for a Mad King by Peter Maxwell Davis (director: Klaus Ortner ) with Isabel Karajan, performances: Rolandseck Festival 2013, Kfar Blum Festival 2014, Dresdner Kunstfest 2015
  • Candide by Leonard Bernstein: A comic operetta in two acts (realization: Klaus Ortner ) with Sir Jeffrey Tate, Hamburger Symphoniker, Isabel Karajan, performance: Laeiszhalle Hamburg 2016
  • The Trial by Fire, director: Julian Pölsler , performances: Schostakowitsch Tage Gohrisch 2015, Sprudel, Sprudel & Musik 2015, RadioKulturhaus ORF Vienna 2015
  • The story of the soldier by Igor Stravinsky (stage set: Klaus Ortner) with Isabel Karajan, performances: Salzburg Easter Festival 2011, Appenzell 2015, Hamburg Laeiszhalle 2015, Bamberg 2016, Bayreuth 2016
  • Fräulein Tod meets Herr Shostakowitsch : A scenic collage (stage set: Klaus Ortner) with Isabel Karajan, performances: Schostakowitsch Days Gohrisch 2014, Salzburg Easter Festival 2015, Soli Deo Gloria Festival Goslar 2016, Suntory Hall Japan 2016, Perm 2017, festival by Theodor Currentzis .
  • Kreutzer Sonatas : Musical-literary collage about the Kreutzer sonatas (coordination: Klaus Ortner ) with Isabel Karajan, performance: Rolandseck Festival 2013
  • Peter and the Wolf (Director: Klaus Ortner) with Isabel Karajan, Christian Spitzenstätter, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, performance: Salzburg 2016, Gohrisch at the international Shostakovich Days 2019
  • Midsummer Night's Dream , director: Christina Pfrötschner, performances: Wettingen 2015
  • The Mask of the Red Death , (director: Klaus Ortner), with Isabel Karajan, Andermatt Swiss Chamber Ensemble, performance: Andermatt Swiss Alps Classics 2017
  • Das Wüstenbuch , ( Beat Furrer ), with Isabel Karajan, Salzburg Festival 2018, Switzerland 2019
  • Stilhang , opera by Christian Spitzenstätter, (director: Klaus Ortner), with Isabel Karajan, world premiere of the Tyrolean Festival in Erl 2018
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream , Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, (director: Klaus Ortner), with Isabel Karajan, conductor Vladimir Jurowski with the Staatskapelle Dresden, world premiere: Semper-Oper Dresden 2019

Filmography (selection)

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Discography

  • 2012 Mozart and contemporaries: Francesca Cardone / Isabel Karajan / Peter Simonischek
  • 1983 speaking role in Carmen, Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DRAMA Hass destroys two families Papa Karajan would be proud of his daughter - Source: Berlin Kurier © 2017
  2. ↑ Brucknerhaus - Source: April 30, 2017 © 2017
  3. ↑ The Death of the Prince Charming - Source: October 11, 1985, 7:00 a.m. © Die Zeit
  4. ↑ Isabel Karajan: He was not a father of gods! - Source: Die Presse © December 5th, 2009 at 18:54
  5. ↑ Macbett - Source: Coline © April 30, 2017 at 10:00
  6. ↑ Base de datos de todas las óperas representadas en el Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires desde 1908 (temporada oficial) - Source: Operas Colon © April 30, 2017
  7. ↑ Source: Issuu.com © April 30, 2017
  8. ↑ IMDb Isabel Karajan
  9. ↑ Online Merker TOKYO / Suntory-Hall / Blue Rose: Miss Death meets Mr. Shostakovich with the Dresden String Quartet, Jascha Nemtsov and Isabel Karajan on November 19, 2016
  10. ↑ The artist-I in a dialogue between music and art: 8th Rolandseck Festival in Remagen
personal data
SURNAME Karajan, Isabel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria