Bass" set a new standard for these songs; he also recorded Schubert's song-cycle Winterreise, and an album of dramatic/heroic ballads by Carl Loewe. Besides German, Italian, and Latin, he recorded a few roles in Russian, including Pimen in Boris Godunov and the Old Convict in Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Shostakovich. He can be seen in many roles on commercial video, including Sarastro (twice), Osmin, the Commendatore, Bartolo, Hunding in Wagner's Die Walküre (three times), Fafner in Das Rheingold and Siegfried, in Gurnemanz in Parsifal, and Ochs (three times). Awards and honors He won three Grammy Awards (1981, 1985, and 1989) for various opera CDs, and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Classical Music/Dance for his performance as Hunding on the PBS television series Live from the Metropolitan Opera (also known as The Metropolitan Opera Presents), in 1991. In Germany he held the prestigious title Kammersänger. Moll was Bayerischer, Hamburger und Wiener Kammersänger. Retirement Moll retired from the stage in 2006, after singing the Nightwatchman at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. He gave a master class in January 2011 at Carnegie Hall. Moll lived in Cologne with his family until his death. Film Kurt Moll – Ein Mann, ein Bass. portrait, Germany 2000, 60 min., directed by Eckhart Schmidt, produced by Raphaela Film GmbH and Preview Release GmbH in coproduction with Bayerischer Rundfunk See also Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (Georg Solti recording) Notes References External links The voice of the Almighty, in Haydn's CREATION, YouTube video Haydn's ST. CECILIA MASS YouTube video Kurt Moll anticipates death (YouTube, audio only) Interview with Kurt Moll, 22 October 1984 Alexander Werner: Säen und sehen, wie es wächst (in German) interview on 21 June 2005 in Hotel an der Oper, Munich, in: Standpunkte, June 2007, p. 46–47 1938 births 2017 deaths 20th-century German male opera singers 21st-century German male opera singers People from Rhein-Erft-Kreis German operatic basses Grammy Award winners Österreichischer Kammersänger