Kurt Moll

Film & TV

Köln, Germany

Kurt Moll (11 April 1938 – 5 March 2017) was a German operatic bass singer who enjoyed an international career and was widely recorded. His voice was notable for its range, a true basso profondo, including full, resonant low and very-low notes with relaxed vibrato; also for its unusual combination of extreme volume-capacity and a purring, contrabassoon-like timbre. Although he had a powerful…

Known for

• Haydn: The Creation (Bernstein)2009
• Mythos Mozart - Musik für die Welt — Self2006
• Yevgeny Onegin — Knyaz Gremin2003
• Kurt Moll - Ein Mann, ein Bass — Self2000
• The Metropolitan Opera: The Magic Flute — Sarastro2000
• Tristan und Isolde — King Marke1998
• Der Rosenkavalier — Der Baron Ochs Auf Lerchenau1994
• Richard Wagner: Parsifal — Gurnemanz1993
• Don Giovanni — Commendatore1990
• Die Walküre — Hunding1989

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

DE

Active from

1938-04-11

Active to

2017-03-05

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,293

Total plays

6,530

Kammersänger Professor Kurt Moll was born 1938 in Cologne. He has studied at the Hochschule in Cologne and got his first engagement 1961 in Aachen. After some seasons in Mainz and Wuppertal he was engaged at the Staatsoper Hamburg in 1970. In this summer he sang also his first Sarastro at the Salzburg Festival under W. Sawallisch. Then came Teatro La Scala with Osmin and Vienna with Gurnemanz. From 1973 until 1977 Bayreuth Festival with several parts like Fafner, Pogner, Kinq Marke, Hundinq etc.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Kurt

Family name

Moll

Gender

male

Citizenship

Germany

Place of death

Cologne

Occupation

opera singer

Educated at

Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln

Languages spoken

German

Field of work

opera

Instrument

voice

Voice type

basso profondo

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