Carlos Kleiber: I am Lost to the World

Name: Carlos Kleiber: I am Lost to the World
Director: Georg Wübbolt
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2011-02-26
Duration: 58 min
Rating: 0
Cast: Carlos Kleiber, Ileana Cotrubas, Michael Gielen, Riccardo Muti, Otto Schenk

Directed by Georg Wübbolt

Documentary

20110h 58m

Overview

Austrian classical conductor Carlos Kleiber (1930-2004) was as eccentric and reclusive as he was brilliant, persistently and obstreperously declining to participate in the international music community or business. This set him apart from his more public contemporaries, such as Herbert von Karajan. This biographical documentary attempts to resolve the ambiguities surrounding Kleiber. The product of exhaustive research, it features rare performance footage of Kleiber leading orchestras, and draws on interviews with individuals who knew and worked with the maestro, including Otto Schenk, Riccardo Muti, Michael Gielen and Ioan Holdender. Carlos Kleiber also turns up to conduct a series of illustrative musical excerpts.