Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, WWV 96 / Weigle, Beyreuth Festival
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.
Product Description:
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Release Date: May 25, 2018
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UPC: 809478090311
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Catalog Number: OA CD9031D
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Label: Opus Arte
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Number of Discs: 4
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Period: 2018-05-25
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Composer: Richard Wagner
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Conductor: Sebastian Weigle
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Orchestra/Ensemble: Bayreuth Festival Chorus, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
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Performer: Artur Korn, Franz Hawlata, Klaus Florian Vogt, Michael Volle, Michaela Kaune, Norbert Ernst