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WAGNER: Meistersinger von Nurnberg (Die) (PAL) |
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Composer: |
Richard Wagner |
Artist: |
Michael Schade, Roman Trekel, Michael Volle, Torsten Kerl, Janusz Monarcha, Emily Magee, Kwangchul Youn, Matthias Holle, Andreas Macco, Markus Eiche, Peter Seiffert, Gosta Winbergh, Gerhard Unger, Adrian Erod, Andreas Schmidt, Ben Heppner, Helena Doese, Donald McIntyre, Paul Frey, John Pringle, Christopher Doig, Rosemary Gunn, Robert Allman, Franz Hawlata, Wolfgang Brendel, Michael Roider, Peter Maus, Falk Struckmann, Michaela Kaune, Jyrki Korhonen, Martin Snell, Bernhard Schneider, Alfred Sramek, Clemens Unterreiner, Markus Pelz, Friedemann Rohlig, Johan Botha, Donald Shanks, Brigitta Svenden, Wolfgang Bankl, Sandor Solyom-Nagy, Robert Holl, Alfred Reiter, Arlene Saunders, Klaus Florian Vogt, Giorgio Tozzi, Toni Blankenheim, Ursula Boese, Ernst Wiemann, Hans-Otto Kloose, Richard Cassilly, Hans-Joachim Ketelsen, Ricarda Merbeth, Artur Korn, Helmut Pampuch, Endrik Wottrich, Alexander Kaimbacher, Edward Randall, Wolfgang Koch, Hans-Jurgen Lazar, Carola Guber, Charles Reid, Ain Anger, Cosmin Ifrim, Michaela Selinger, Peter Jelosits, Diogenes Randes, Norbert Ernst, Rainer Zaun, Stefan Heibach |
Conductor: |
Daniel Barenboim, Charles Mackerras, Sebastian Weigle, Leopold Ludwig, Christian Thielemann, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, James Levine |
Choir: |
Bayreuth Festival Chorus, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Hamburg State Opera Chorus, Berlin Opera Chorus, Opera Australia Chorus |
Ensemble: |
Hamburg State Opera Ballet, Bayreuth Festival Ballet, Vienna State Opera Ballet School 11th-Grade Students |
Orchestra: |
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Elizabethan Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Deutsche Opera Orchestra, Hamburg State Philharmonic Orchestra |
Lyricist: |
Richard Wagner |
Label: |
Arthaus |
Catalogue No.: |
100152 |
Format: |
DVD |
Barcode: |
4006680101521 |
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Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg), opera in three acts
From The Deutsche Oper Berlin 1995
Cast: Wolfgang Brendel, Gosta Winbergh
Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Conductor: Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos
This title is not available in the US and Japan
Running Time : 266 min
Menu languages: PAL: GB, D, F, SP NTSC: GB, F, J, SP
Subtitle languages: PAL: GB, D, F NTSC: GB, J, F
Picture Format: 16:9
Sound Format: PCM Stereo
Region Code: 0
( 2 DVD)
Sel. No. 100 152 PAL
Sel. No. 100 153 NTSC
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg is Richard Wagner's most celebratory opera, and is indeed the epitome of the festival opera. It is therefore no surprise that it is often performed at the opening and reopening of opera houses. The frequent performance and playing of the radiant prelude at festive occasions is also on account of the character of the music. As an opera it is furthermore the only comedy among the serious and heavily symbolic works of Wagner. Composing Die Meistersinger after Tristan und Isolde must be the greatest contrast in operatic history, proof of the artist's ability to give each of his works a specific tone. Few works of the operatic world are politically so burdened as Wagner's Meistersinger von Nürnberg, which was known to be Hitler's favorite opera. The production by Götz Friedrich for the Deutsche Oper in Berlin (premiered on 1 May 1993) places the action among the post-war ruins of Nuremberg in 1945, treating this difficult aspect of Meistersinger's history of popularity in an impressive fashion.
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