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Sacred and profane: Robert Bailey traces the influence of Bach and Handel on the musical language of Wagner's revolutionary comedy Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg.
Wagner's decision to create Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg was as courageous as any in the history of art. The new opera was to remain for several years Wagner's refuge against a world hostile to his artistic aims and "reforms," as well as insufficiently forthcoming with regard to his financial support (until the King of Bavaria became his patron for life, in 1864). After the opera's successful premiere, in Munich in June 1868, Wagner accepted the King's enthusiastic reaction but chided him for seeming to have missed its "lonely cry of the artist in distress."
Wagner set to work on Die Meistersinger more than a decade after the revolution he had helped to ...
- Richard Wagner Die meistersinger von Nurnberg.
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Gooding, Wayne June 22, 1997 700+ words
RICHARD WAGNER DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NURNBERG VAN DAM, OPIE, PAPE, HEPPNER, LIPPERT, MATILLA...DIE MEISTERSINGER IS, FOR ME, THE PROBLEM CHILD IN THE WAGNER canon. All the other major works invariably suck me right in...
- WAGNER: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
- Magazine article from: Opera News Gurewitsch, Matthew August 1, 2009 700+ words
WAGNER: Die Meistersinger von Nrnberg * Kaune...documented, Katharina Wagner was still merely Richard...Katharina regards Die Meistersinger as "a discourse on...Schiller, Liszt, Wagner himself and other German...
- Ring und Gral: Texte, Kommentare und Interpretationen zu Richard Wagners 'Der...
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Thomas, Neil July 1, 2004 700+ words
...Interpretationen zu Richard Wagners 'Der Ring des...und Isolde', 'Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg...for a number of Wagner's operas between...Panagl of hints of Wagner's projected Buddhist...Parsifal, and Die Meistersinger, together with...whose use by Wagner in the ...
- Solti, CSO Update `Die Meistersinger'
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times WYNNE DELACOMA September 25, 1995 700+ words
...concert version of Richard Wagner's mighty "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg" in Orchestra...fresh, expressive voices to Wagner's only comic opera. A distinguished...performances. Of course, Wagner's signature sonority was...
- DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NURNBERG (ACT III).
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada May 1, 2006 700+ words
DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NURNBERG (ACT III) Wagner Profil/Hanssler PH05038 (2 CDs) This recording is a technical and musical marvel. Recorded in August 1938 and released commercially...
- Dislodged laurel wreath is an apt metaphor; Die Meistersinger Royal Opera...
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) Millington, Barry November 13, 2002 700+ words
...Royal Opera's prizewinning Die Meistersinger was always going to be a tough...Prelude, where he handled Wagner's contrapuntal tour de force...differentiate the threads in Wagner's most elaborate orchestral...only her role debut but her Wagner debut, looks and sounds perfect...
- DVDs: DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NURNBERG.
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Crory, Neil March 22, 2005 700+ words
Wagner Heppner, Mattila, Morris, Allen, Pape. The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra...do exist only underscore the humanity of the piece. At nearly five hours, Wagner's comic masterpiece has been fondly described as "the longest single smile...
- In the Metropolitan Opera House : scene from Die Meistersinger.
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
