The Kentucky Symphony Orchestra.
In Sunday’s (10/19) Northern Kentucky Tribune, an unsigned article states, “The Kentucky Symphony Orchestra will open its 34th season on Halloween with the silent horror film classic Nosferatu, paired with the 1828 opera Der Vampyr, adapted to the film for live orchestral accompaniment by composer Timothy Brock. The evening will open with the Disney 1929 cartoon ‘The Skeleton Dance’ featuring Carl Stallings’ musical accompaniment, before launching into the 86-minute feature film. German film director F.W. Murnau’s best known film is Nosferatu (1922), an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), starring German stage actor Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok…. Heinrich Marschner’s 1828 opera Der Vampyr (The Vampire) was based on John Polidori’s 1819 short story … In 1833, Richard Wagner composed an allegro to replace the second half of [an] aria in the second act…. Attend dressed as your favorite cinematic vampire and receive a free, bloody-good drink courtesy of the KSO.”
