Visitors are invited to contribute accounts of EXPERIENCES they had that involved Carlos Kleiber in some way, or TRIBUTES to him as artist and human being. Some contributions will likely contain both elements. Recollections of having known or met Carlos, of having attended in person a concert or an opera that he conducted, or of having played or sung professionally under him in a performance would be most welcome. But posts by those who simply wish to express their admiration for Carlos’ artistry and humanity will be equally welcome.

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I live in São Paulo, Brazil, and I also want to pay my compliments to the initiative of the tributes to the art and to the memory of Carlos Kleiber. I believe he is little known in Brazil, certainly due to a lack of disclosure of his performances and of his recordings, besides we know he never valorized intensely his music as a consumption object, as a commercial product. In 2009, I bought by chance the DVD with the recording of Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus and became very impressed with the quality of his regency: the passion, the joy (the constant smile, the singing together), the elegance of gesture and the almost mathematic accuracy that he impressed on his work. I watch this DVD at least once a week. Although Kleiber is not very diffused here in Brazil, I managed to buy some of his DVDs and can, therefore, often see the Richard Strauss’ opera Der Rosenkavalier, Beethoven’s 4th and 7th Symphonies, Mozart’s 36th and Brahms’ 2n d Symphonies, and also the Neujahrskonzert in Wien 1989, the only works of him I found here. I’d be happy if I could find more graphic and phonographic material about this fantastic conductor that unhappily I’ll never be able to hear in person.

Arthur Kaufman
São Paulo, Brazil