Table of Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Permissions

Family

Parallax

• Origins
• The First Kleiber Debut
• Wozzeck
• South America
• KLB Kleiber
• Against the Swastika
• Safe in the South
• After the War

Career

• Fables
• How it Began
• The First Walkout
• Moving Ahead
• Moving Abroad
• At Bayreuth
• Donkeys in Japan
• Fledermaus
• Two Emperors, No Kingdom
• Paying a Price
• Night and Perfect Love
• Hand Across the Sea
• A Very Bad Year
• Surviving Fame
• The Seventh
• Apogee
• Carlos the Critic
• Carlos the Teacher
• The Long Goodbye

The Correspondence

• 1989-2003

Epilogue

Bibliography

Appendix A

• Discography

Appendix B

• Carlos Kleiber Filmography
• Erich Kleiber Filmography

Appendix C

• Films Sent to Carlos Kleiber

Appendix D
prepared by Toru Hirosawa

• Kleiber Worklists
• Repertoire
• Performances
• Opera Houses
• Symphony Orchestras

Photographs

Index

Endnotes