WAGNER: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg [Arthaus 101273]

WAGNER: Meistersinger von Nurnberg (Die) (Hamburg State Opera studio production, 1970) (NTSC) Richard Wagner DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG Historical Studio Production from the Hamburg State Opera, Recorded in 1970 Sung in German Hans Sachs: Giorgio Tozzi Veit Pogner: Ernst Wiemann Fritz Kothner: Hans-Otto Kloose Sixtus Beckmesser: Toni Blankenheim Walther von Stolzing: Richard Cassilly David: Gerhard Unger Eva: Arlene Saunders Magdalene: Ursula Boese Ballet and Chorus of the Hamburg State Opera The Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg Leopold Ludwig, conductor Joachim Hess, TV director Picture format: NTSC 4:3 (Colour) Sound format: Dolby Digital Mono Region code: 0 Menu Languages: English, German, French, Spanish Subtitle Languages: English, German, French, Spanish Running time: 240 mins No. of DVDs: 2 (DVD 9) * The 1970 film version of Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg is based on a staging by the director Leopold Lindtberg, for which Herbert Kirchhoff designed the set and Rudolf Heinrich the costumes. Leopold Ludwig conducts the chorus of the Hamburg State Opera and the Philharmonic Hamburg State Orchestra. * A quick glance at the cast list of this film production of Die Meistersinger reveals the surprising fact that the vocal protagonists -- all stars of international repute -- were almost all associated with the Hamburg State Opera ensemble. * This production fascinates with its appealing classical staging, the brilliance of the whole cast and the great camera shots, which only could be realised in a studio production like this: with the result that the audience finds itself placed amidst the scene. * The role of Walter von Stolzing is here appropriately sung by Richard Cassilly, praised as "one of the great heldentenors of his generation." http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=101273 BUY / DOWNLOAD / STREAM: NaxosDirect US http://bit.ly/29EVYb8 NaxosDirect UK http://bit.ly/29F5LwT Amazon US http://amzn.to/29y1QlT Amazon UK http://amzn.to/29Elcub ArkivMusic http://bit.ly/29F61wM

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas. Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk, by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama. He described this vision in a series of essays published between 1849 and 1852. Wagner realised these ideas most fully in the first half of the four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.

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