Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
From: Saturday, 19th June 2010
To: Saturday, 3 July 2010
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Synopsis
The story of the poet-cobbler Sachs and Eva who is pledged to marry the winner of the prize-song contest.
Our Review:
25 June 2010
After years of waiting, Welsh National Opera and Bryn Terfel have finally come together to present Wagner’s only comedy in Cardiff. In an exhilarating, triumphant and often deeply moving evening the company and Terfel earn themselves a well deserved triumph. There have been so many false starts to Terfel’s Hans Sachs that many of us believed it would never happen but it was worth the wait.
Terfel, even at this first performance, seems an almost perfect vocal fit for the part and presents us with a rounded and often surprising portrayal of the cobbler-poet. Younger than often presented and a clearly viable alternative suitor to Eva, Terfel makes this relationship one of the two central relationships of the work. Therefore the moment when he realises that he must let go of her is doubly poignant. This dramatic pivot-point when it appears Eva might choose Sachs and the appalled Walther realises the depth of their relationship is one of the highpoints in a superb p...
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