The Kentucky Symphony Orchestra opens 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. Stoker’s estate won a copyright infringement lawsuit against Prana Films. In addition to damages, the court ordered all existing prints of the film to be destroyed. However, one copy had already been distrib

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