Kurt Masur Movies
- 2007
The performance release Kurt Masur: A Life in Music - The Anniversary Gala from Leipzig finds noted European conductor Masur leading the MDR Radio Choir and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig symphony in renditions of works by Moniuszko, Dvorak, Dukas, Bizet and other composers. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Kurt Masur, Harald Schmidt, (more)
Kurt Masur conducts the Gewandhaus Orchestra and Chorus as well as soprano Venceslava Hruba-Freiberger, mezzo Doris Soffel, tenor James Wagner, and bass Gwen Howell in this performance of Ludwig Van Beethoven's "Symphony No. 9 in D minor, op. 125 captured live at the Gewandhaus concert hall in Leipzig, Germany. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- 1969
In the final decades of his life, opera guru Walter Felseinstein (1901-75) built and sustained a reputation for restaging seminal works from the operatic canon for film cameras, and shooting them on closed sets, usually with the original casts involved. Such was the case with this unique 1969 version of Giuseppe Verdi's four-act opera Othello, which Verdi, in turn, adapted from William Shakespeare's iconic tragedy. As filmed at the DEFA Studio in Babelsberg, this version stars Hanns Nocker as Othello, Christa Noack as Desdemona, Vladimir Bauer as Iago and Hans-Otto Rogge as Cassio. The Chorus and Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin provide added musical accompaniment. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
