- Kurt Moll
Kurt Moll (born
April 11 ,1938 ) is a Germanopera tic bass.Moll was born in Buir, near
Cologne ,Germany . As a child, he played the cello and hoped to become a great cellist. He also sang in the school choir, and the conductor encouraged him to concentrate on singing. He studied voice at the Köln Hochschule für Musik with Emmy Müller.He joined the Cologne Opera at 20 and remained until 1961. He then sang for three years in
Mainz and five years inWuppertal . In 1969, he accepted an engagement with the Hamburg State Opera, and he then sang in all the major opera houses of Europe.He made his US debut with the
San Francisco Opera as Gurnemanz inRichard Wagner 's "Parsifal " in 1974. HisMetropolitan Opera debut followed four years later, when he sang the Landgraf in "Tannhäuser ", Rocco in "Fidelio ", and Sparafucile in "Rigoletto". From that time he has performed all over the world. He retired from stage in 2006. His last performance was the role of Nachtwächter in "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg " in the Münchner Opern-Festspiele.He has made innumerable recordings with many of the great conductors. In 1991, he won a
Grammy Award for his recording of "Das Rheingold ".He lives in Cologne with his family.
External links
* [http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Moll-Kurt.htm Biography from Bach-Cantatas.com]
* [http://www.andersmanagement.com/singers/kmoll.php Biography from Anders Management]
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