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Unquestionably great singing; however, I'm less taken with the taffy-like conducting, now slowing down, now speeding up (and not just at the end)...it reminds me of Richard Strauss's take on Mozart.

This production is wonderful, and the singers here really did it justice. I heard part of an interview this afternoon (3/26/11) with Morris during a Met intermission broadcast where he said that he had no interest in performing Sachs until Levine convinced him to do it, and that Meistersinger is...

As someone once said, "If you can't play it like that, you shouldn't play it at all." Magnificent.

The finest Rigoletto of the last half of the 20th century. He sang the role hundreds of times all over the world....over 100 times at the Met alone. I have an early-'70s performance of him in the role with Scotto and Tucker from Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires....it gets no better than this.