Watch: Carlos Kleiber mimes killing himself
mainPit footage has emerged of a 1994 Vienna Rosenkavalier where the singing seems to drive the inspirational conductor to thoughts of self-destruction.
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That’s Kurt Moll you’re referring to! I think CK was just exhausted. This is the run during which he lost his place at times, his last opera performances in Europe.
That’s rubbish! If you know anything about Kleiber and his perfectionism and tantrums you’d know he’s very displeased with the singing!!
Brigitte Fassbaender talks on film about Carlos going back-stage after a patchy performance complaining, “how could you do this to me???”.
Members of the orchestra are on record about Kleiber losing his way during the three March 1994 performances.
You don’t need to defend him. He is not under attack. He was in failing health, and the strain of living every single phrase, as he did, was becoming too much in such a long work.
In October 1994 he led six performances in Tokyo, earning a fortune, and that was the end for him in opera.
Fassbaender’s comments are accurate too, but have nothing to do with what we are seeing here.
Would love to know your source(s) for this. You may be right but where is this stated?
Did anyone catch him looking at the score? No, thought not…! This is why this obsessive genius conducted so rarely. He didn’t want to do anything he didn’t have anything significant to say about.
And doesn’t miss a beat!
This is Baron Ochs’ aria “Da lieg ich” in the end of Act II, and Baron Ochs’ servants (bass choristers) were dragging like crazy when they came in at measure 233, prompting Kleiber to stab himself in the heart whilst still conducting and getting everybody back on the beat.
This is Baron Ochs’ aria “Da lieg ich” in the end of Act II, and Ochs’ servants (bass choristers, “Lerchenau’s Diener” in the score), were dragging like crazy when they came in at measure 233, prompting Kleiber to stab himself in the heart whilst still conducting and getting everybody back on the beat.:
– http://goo.gl/VDtHTk
I don’t think Kleiber stabs himself in the heart in his 1994 recording from the Deutsche Grammophon DVD:
– https://youtu.be/cQp6FYs42cc?t=50m52s
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Not in Mahler’s class. They all wanted to be Mahler.
Very strange comment. Have you ever seen Mahler as a conductor?
The classical music peanut gallery: that funny place with people full of judgement but without the empirical knowledge to justify it. Opinionated impostors.
Funny and amazing video ! Maybe from tv program “Just for laughs gags”….
Did anybody notice that after the stabbing and complaining to some violín players of the orchestra his left hand flew amanzingly to make a beautiful ritenuto?
Love the way CK looks to the violins for consolation about the dragging here! They are usually the culprits….especially in Strauss.
Any other conductor we know who chats to the orchestra during actual performances?