Midsummer's eve in Nuremberg and the real-life cobbler-poet Hans Sachs and the guild of mastersingers are pursuing their craft of poetry and music according to traditions and rules. A goldsmith's daughter, Eva, and a knight, Walther von Stolzing, fall in love, but Eva's father has promised her to the winner in the forthcoming song contest. Under the wise tuition of Sachs, can Walther learn the mastersinger's art in time to win Eva’s hand and see off a challenge from the foolish town clerk Beckmesser?
Richard Wagner’s only comic opera had a long gestation. Summer 1845: drawing on the History of German Literature as well as the biography of poet and shoemaker Hans Sachs, the composer sketches out ideas for a satirical counterpart to Tannhäuser. Autumn 1861: Wagner writes to his publisher that he intends to cheer himself up with ‘something lighter’ and begins composing Die Meistersinger, which he would not complete until six years later. With a sense of self-derision with which he is not usually associated, Wagner brings together an exercise in style and an aesthetic manifesto in praise of the ‘noble and holy German art!’. Here is an opera that speaks volumes about the composer’s own preoccupations: the widening divide between high art and popular culture, and the fracturing of tradition by the radically new. Wise and audacious, the characters of Sachs and Walther can be seen as a double self-portrait of their creator. OperaVision shares live Teatro Real’s new production (the first in Madrid for 22 years) which is conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado and staged by a director with some gift for comedy, Laurent Pelly.
Full performance streamed LIVE on OperaVision on 18 May 2024 at 18:00 CET and available until 18 November 2024 at 12:00 CET: [ Ссылка ]
CAST
Hans Sachs
Gerald Finley
Veit Pogner
Jongmin Park
Kunz Vogelgesang
Paul Schweinester
Konrad Nachtigal
Barnaby Rea
Sixtus Beckmesser
Leigh Melrose
Fritz Kothner
José Antonio López
Balthasar Zorn
Albert Casals
Ulrich Eisslinger
Kyle van Schoonhoven
Augustin Moser
Jorge Rodríguez- Norton
Hermann Ortel
Bjørn Waag
Hans Schwarz
Valeriano Lanchas
Hans Foltz
Frederic Jost
Walther von Stolzing
Tomislav Mužek
David
Sebastian Kohlhepp
Eva
Nicole Chevalier
Magdalene
Anna Lapkovskaja
Sereno
Alexander Tsymbalyuk
Chorus
Teatro Real Chorus
Orchestra
Teatro Real Orchestra
Music and text
Richard Wagner
Conductor
Pablo Heras-Casado
Director
Laurent Pelly
Costume
Laurent Pelly
Jean-Jacques Delmotte
Sets
Urs Schönebaum
Lighting
Urs Schönebaum
Chorus Master
José Luis Basso
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