A documentary about the life and career of the conductor Carlos Kleiber. Featuring interviews with Placido Domingo, Brigitte Fassbaender, Manfred Honeck, Michael Gielen, and others. On the 11th July 2004 Carlos Kleiber got into his car and drove from Munich, via the Alps, to his holiday home in the remote Slovenian village of Konjsica. There he wrote a final letter to a friend in which he bid farewell to the world. A short time later the conductor, increasingly plagued by illness and suffering, was found dead.

“What remains of Karajan?” asks the award-winning documentary film maker Eric Schulz. In his film Karajan – The Second Life, he explores the man and the musician – and especially his media legacy. We discover the conditions under which the technology enthusiast Karajan created his countless recordings and how these documents can help us to understand the phenomenon that is Karajan.

These four documentaries last almost six hours and provide a vivid account of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen illustrated bu numerous music examples. Directed by the award-winning director Eric Schulz (ECHO Klassik, Gramphone Award, Romy), the film demonstrates that "Wagner's Ring in really very simple ... This is educational television in the very best sense of the term" (Kurier, Vienna).