The read
A Balasaur Score of 60 out of 100, drawn from TMDB 6/10. It runs long at 5h 9m.
Synopsis
James Levine leads a stirring performance of Wagner’s epic comedy, seen in Otto Schenk’s classic production. Baritone Michael Volle stars as Hans Sachs, the cobbler-poet at the heart of this story of love, art, and youth vs. age. Leading Wagnerian tenor Johan Botha is Walther von Stolzing, the young knight whose new ideas upset the traditional ways of the mastersingers, and Annette Dasch sings Eva, the girl he loves, whose hand has been promised to the winner of a singing contest. Johannes Martin Kränzle as the pedantic town clerk Beckmesser, Hans-Peter König as Pogner, Eva’s father, and Paul Appleby as David, Sachs’s apprentice complete the stellar cast.
Ratings
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Otto SchenkDirector
- Richard WagnerWriter
- Richard WagnerOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Michael VolleHans Sachs
- Annette DaschEva
- Johan BothaWalther von Stolzing
- Johannes Martin KränzleSixtus Beckmesser
- Hans-Peter KönigVeit Pogner
- Paul ApplebyDavid
- Karen CargillMagdalene
- Matthew RoseNachtwächter
- Martin HochmannKunz Vogelgesang
- David CrawfordKonrad Nachtigall
- Martin GantnerFritz Kothner
- Joseph HuBalthasar Zorn
