James Levine leads Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (“The Master-Singer of Nuremberg”) in its first Great Performances at the Met broadcast. Michael Volle is the cobbler-poet Hans Sachs, ...
Watch as Lise Davidsen, Claudia Mahnke, Klaus Florian Vogt, Paul Appleby, and Michael Volle sing an excerpt from the Act III quintet in the final dress rehearsal. The clip is conducted by Antonio ...
“It’s like an international flight,” whined a member of the Metropolitan Opera’s audience within earshot of me the last time that Richard Wagner’s longest opera, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, was ...
Even by the standards of opera, an art form not known for its brevity, some epics test the endurance of audiences and performers alike. Consider “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg,” a comic opera by ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The Frog Prince is sodomising an apprentice, while Hansel and Gretel get up to no good. For the briefest of moments, ...
David McVicar’s Glyndebourne production of Die Meistersinger premiered in 2011 to a deafening chorus of approval, but that was before people had seen Richard Jones’s production for Welsh National ...
Or: Why did Herr B. Run Amok? Having Jonas Kaufmann on the bill is one of the very few guarantees of a full house in the world of classical music. This very fine, heavily hyped, apparently ...
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As some try to lure audiences back with short programs, the Metropolitan Opera is staging its longest work: Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger.” 6:18 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 26, opening night of Wagner’s “Die ...
Few operas are as mountainous as Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.” The rarely performed work, rich with sonic booming and spitty glottal fricatives, has a running time of almost six hours. It ...
Opera Australia takes on Wagner's comedy in this Royal Opera House co-production Wagner was never one for brevity, and he certainly didn’t think it was the soul of wit; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ...
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