Transcript: Interview: Placido Domingo discusses the life and death of conductor Carlos Kleiber

ROBERT SIEGEL
All Things Considered (NPR)
07-20-2004
Interview: Placido Domingo discusses the life and death of conductor Carlos Kleiber

Host: ROBERT SIEGEL
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM

ROBERT SIEGEL, host:

Listen to this. It's the overture to "Die Fledermaus" played by the Vienna Philharmonic.

(Soundbite of the overture to "Die Fledermaus")

SIEGEL: The conductor on this 1990 recording was Carlos Kleiber, who died last week at the age of 74. Kleiber was raised in Argentina, the son of an Austrian expatriate who was also a conductor. He was buried in Slovenia beside his wife, who was Slovenian and who died last year. Carlos Kleiber conducted rarely but, it was said, brilliantly. The director of ...

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