Wagner: Die Meistersinger (Bayreuth)

Ostensibly Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg tells a humorous tale about artistically inclined craftsmen. Goldsmith Veit Pogner promises his daughter Eva's hand in marriage to the winner of a song contest, to which three men are potentially eligible. But upon closer inspection,what is at first glance a harmless farce in a middle-class setting emerges as a profound social analysis. Wagner uses his protagonists to show how a community deals with tradition and those who break with it and just how much innovation and deviation from the norm it can tolerate -- as well as to examine what value society places, and should place, on art. Hans Sachs: Franz Hawlata Veit Pogner: Artur Korn Sixtus Beckmesser: Michael Volle Walther Von Stolzing: Klaus Florian Vogt David: Norbert Ernst Eva: Michaela Kaune Magdalene: Carola Guber Bayreuther Festspiele Chorus Bayreuther Festspiele Orchestra Conductor: Sebastian Weigle Stage director: Katharina Wagner Available from Opus Arte on DVD and Blu-ray http://www.opusarte.com/en/catalogsea... Please "Like" us at   / opusarte