Meistersinger, Bayreuth Festival, July 2011
Posted on 31 July 2011Tickets for Bayreuth are hard to come by, so you know something’s wrong when people are disposing of Meistersinger at half price outside the theatre.
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Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Wagner Wochen, February 2010
Posted on 15 February 2010Rossini’s comment that, “Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour” was spoken before Die Meistersinger was created, and this opera has, for me, not a dull moment — it’s one glorious thing after another. Of course a determined director can spoil it, as happened at Bayreuth this past summer in Katharina Wagner’s diabolical production, …
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Bayreuther Festspiele, July 2009
Posted on 28 July 2009…this year’s production of Meistersinger was apparently even more ludicrous that last year’s.
Der Rosenkavalier, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Feb 2009
Posted on 18 February 2009Daniela Sindram was the best Octavian I’ve ever seen, singing and acting the part of a young man to perfection. … Kurt Rydl’s portrayal of Baron Ochs was superbly natural, without over-acting or stepping over the line into farce, as sometimes happens with this part, and his singing was thoroughly engaging.