| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file (4 hr., 37 min., 7 sec.)) : sound, color |
| Playing Time |
043707 |
| Description |
digital |
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video file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Performer |
Franz Hawlata (Hans Sachs) ; Artur Korn (Veit Pogner) ; Charles Reid (Kunz Vogelsang) ; Rainer Zaun (Konrad Nachtigall) ; Michael Volle (Sixtus Beckmesser) ; Markus Eiche (Fritz Kothner) ; Edward Randall (Balthasar Zorn) ; Hans-Jürgen Lazar (Ulrich Eisslinger) ; Stefan Heibach (Augustin Moser) ; Martin Snell (Hermann Ortel) ; Andreas Macco (Hans Schwarz) ; Diógenes Randes (Hans Foltz) ; Klaus Florian Vogt (Walther von Stolzing) ; Norbert Ernst (David) ; Michaela Kaune (Eva) ; Carola Guber (Magdalene) ; Friedemann Röhlig (A Nightwatchman) ; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and Chorus ; Sebastian Weigle, conductor. |
| Event |
Recorded live 2008 Bayreuther Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, Germany. |
| Summary |
Katharina Wagner stages The Mastersingers of Nuremberg in Bayreuth. The young knight Walther von Stolzing (Klaus Florian Vogt) is in love with the young Eva Pogner (Michaela Kaune), who loves him in return, but is promised to the future winner of a singing contest held the next day. Walter tries as quickly as he can to learn the rules of composition, but on the day of the contest he is booed by the jury ... The Mastersingers is an expression of the endless quarrel between the Ancients (Die Meistersinger, who deeply want to keep the present rules of composition) and modern (embodied by the cobbler Hans Sachs and the young Stolzing). The peculiarity of this stage direction is that Katharina Wagner wants to make Sixtus Beckmesser (Michael Volle) friendly, because he is really humiliated through the opera. Unique comic drama ever composed by Wagner, The Mastersingers fits perfectly to the colorful staging imagined by the young Katharina Wagner, great granddaughter of the composer and co-director of the Festival Bayreuth. In 2007, this production opened the 96th edition of the Bayreuth Festival, and was played the following summer of 2008, time of this recording. |
| Language |
Sung in German; English subtitles. |
| Subject |
Operas.
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Operas. |
| Genre/Form |
Internet videos.
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Internet videos.
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Video recordings.
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Video recordings.
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| Added Author |
Wagner, Katharina, 1978- stage director.
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Morell, Andreas, film director.
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Hawlata, Franz, singer.
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Korn, Artur, 1937- singer.
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Reid, Charles (Tenor), singer.
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Zaun, Rainer, singer.
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Volle, Michael, singer.
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Eiche, Markus, 1969- singer.
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Randall, Edward (Tenor), singer.
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Lazar, Hans-Jürgen, 1958- singer.
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Heibach, Stefan, singer.
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Snell, Martin, singer.
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Macco, Andreas, singer.
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Randes, Diógenes, singer.
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Vogt, Klaus Florian, singer.
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Ernst, Norbert, 1977- singer.
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Kaune, Michaela, singer.
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Guber, Carola, singer.
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Röhlig, Friedemann, singer.
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Weigle, Sebastian, conductor.
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Container of (work): Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.
Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
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United Motion (Firm), production company.
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Bayreuther Festspiele. Orchester, instrumentalist.
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Bayreuther Festspiele. Chor, singer.
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