Apart from Wagner’s, these were from the core of Karajan’s lyric repertoire, especially by Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini, with a few revivals; however, operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss remained reserved to the summer festival. The orchestra and choral concerts featured works Karajan frequently conducted in Berlin or on tour, most by Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Anton Bruckner, Mozart, and Strauss; this made it possible to minimize on-site rehearsals, and the concerts were sometimes preceded by a studio recording, as for the opera.
These operas were from Karajan's core repertoire of lyric works, particularly those by Verdi and Puccini, with a few revivals; however, Mozart and Strauss operas remained for the summer festival. The orchestra and choral concerts featured works Karajan frequently conducted in Berlin or on tour, mostly by Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, Mozart, and Strauss; this allowed for minimal rehearsals onsite, and the concerts were sometimes recorded beforehand, as was the case with the opera.