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Grandissimo direttore, il M° Levine. Non ci sono altre parole per descriverlo!

Man erlebt zwar immer wieder aberwitzige Inszenierungen, aber niemand kommt auf die Idee, diesen nur aus dem 19. Jhdt. verständlichen penetrant-nationalistischenText endlich der Gegenwart anzupassen.

helisua142857 3 weeks ago

Just seen a production of the opera in Zurich and it was awesome!

Amreio 4 weeks ago

sounds labored

meloncholybob 2 months ago

Das ist besser als Sex!

DADUGUAN 2 months ago

@DADUGUAN Haha, have a read of Laurence Dreyfus' book, "Wagner and the Erotic Impulse". Er würde Sie erzählen, das ist ziemlich dasselbe!

1984ekul 1 month ago

For 16th century Nuremberg, there are quite a lot of Black and Asian guys.

HerrWagnerfreund 5 months ago 2

@HerrWagnerfreund Well you see, black and Asian minorities really were Very important to late Mediaeval culture, particularly in Germany... it was just white-guy prejudice that attempted to eradicate all that and make no mention of [them] in the histories, scientific and musical life, etc. This production of Meistersinger does us all a great service in Correcting (politically and otherwise) that misconception and presenting Nurnberg as it truly was...

UlfenDaddy 1 month ago

I can NOT BELIEFE there are some "critics" on Amazon that throw brickbats @ James Morris as Hans Sacks and this Met DVD production. there are very few Opera singers I can pick out just from their unique voice the late, great Luciano Pavarotti is one. James Morris, Ekkehard Waluscha and Heinz Zednik are the other three. their voices are PURE

I think the Amazon critics are "Bayreuth snobs" that think only a German singer can perform Wagner. this is the BEST Meistersinger I have EVER heard.

LeRinkRat 6 months ago

@LeRinkRat

Did the thought that James Morris is simply not to everyones taste ever occur to you?

It takes more to sing Wagner then a loud voice. Listen to a truly great Wagnerian singer like Thomas Stewart ( Texan I believe ) treating the same material with alot more dramatic heft and verve.

As for the so called "Bayreuth snobs"; it is quite simply true that the MET does not operate on the same level as the other great houses in the world, least of all Bayreuth.

HuninMunin 4 months ago 3

@HuninMunin you have your opinion and I have mine. I just think that Morris's "softer" presentation of Hans Sacks fits the part better than most BUT you ARE correct about Thomas Stewart's "Verachtet mir die Meister nicht" which was recently posted by Addiobelpassato. IT'S SPECTACULAR!!! in fact, I enjoyed it SO much, I ordered the re-mastered CD of that 1967 recording conducted by Rafael Kubelik with Sandor Konya as Walther, Gundula Janowitz as Eva and Thomas Hemsley as Beckmesser.

LeRinkRat 4 months ago

@LeRinkRat and like I have said before "alles ist gut nur, dass einige besser sind"

LeRinkRat 4 months ago

@LeRinkRat

Glad to see that sometimes even on youtube something fruitfulll emerges from arguments.

Kubelik's Meistersinger ranks as a very close second to Karajan's in my opinion.

I can wholeheartly recommend the his recently emerged Parsifal aswell.

The best recording avaiable.

As for DVD releases I think we will have to wait until Glyndebourne's excellent ( read very human ) production is released.

HuninMunin 4 months ago

@HuninMunin ".....a very close second to Karajan's in my opinion". IF you are speaking of the von Karajan 1970 EMI recording which was re-mastered and released on CD in 1999 with Theo Adam as Hans Sachs, Rene Kollo as Walther and Geraint Evans as Beckmesser, I don't think it's that good compared to a lot of the Met performances I have heard on SiriusXM and if the rest of the 1967 Kubelik is as good as Thomas Stewart's "Verachtet mir die Meister nicht" it's NO contest.

LeRinkRat 4 months ago

I live in Frankfurt, but I was born in England, a true Englishman. Watching this makes me proud that both sides of my bloodline, the Angles, and the Saxons, are both Germanic tribes.

TheAbstraction 6 months ago