Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor
David McVicar, Director
English-speaking audiences have always found Die Meistersinger to be a life-enhancing celebration of wisdom, art and song. So it proves in David McVicar’s production – the first at Glyndebourne – which is updated to the early-19th century of Wagner’s childhood. At the centre of a true ensemble cast is Gerald Finley, a ‘gleamingly sung’, ’eminently believable’ Sachs (The Independent on Sunday), supported by the dynamic conducting of Vladimir Jurowski which, like McVicar’s production, uses Glyndebourne’s special intimacy to bring sharp focus to bear on the subtlety of Wagner’s musical and dramatic counterpoint.
September 2012
Opus Arte
Duration: 300 minutes
Sound type: 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS
Subtitles: EN/FR/DE
Cast
Gerald Finley – Hans Sachs
Anna Gabler – Eva
Johannes Martin Kränzle – Sixtus Beckmesser
Marco Jentzsch – Walther von Stolzing
Topi Lehtipuu – David
Michaela Selinger – Magdalene
Alastair Miles – Veit Pogner
Henry Waddington – Fritz Kothner
Mats Almgren – Nightwatchman
Colin Judson – Kunz Vogelgesang
Andrew Slater – Konrad Nachtigall
Alasdair Elliott – Balthasar Zorn
Adrian Thompson – Ulrich Eisslinger
Daniel Norman – Augustin Moser
Robert Poulton – Hermann Ortel
Maxim Mikailov – Hans Schwarz
Graeme Broadbent – Hans Foltz
Performed with: The London Philharmonic Orchestra & The Glyndebourne Chorus