Hi everyone, today I was watching on DVD Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg and I thought, Why don't start a thread about Midsummer?
Purcell, Britten, Mendelsshon and others have composed music about Midsummer (operas or music for stage).
But for me Wagner's Meistersinger von Nurnberg is the best for a such magical night.
How do you think about that? What's the best Midsummer's composition and what is your favorite version?
My favorite is Meistersinger von Nurnberg and I have only one version, the Opera Australian' version: conductor Mackerras, sing Does, McIntyre, Frey, Pringle, Doig, Shank, Gun, Allman. Anyway, this dvd is nice with a traditional and wonderful settings.
The principal aria from Die Meistersinger von Nurnber: Morgenlicht leuchtet with Rene Kollo.:tiphat:
Midsummer's compositions I have loved: hmm. Not a one. I don't even like Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. Midsummer nights, however, I am much in favor of. A bottle of wine, Traviata (or your latest obsession) on the CD player, fireflies rising in the gloaming ... ah.
Down in the southern hemisphere where it is winter we had the South African National Youth Orchestra play the overture to Die Meistersinger van Nurnberg this evening. The entire concert was sublime.
Well, I'm working on Wagner. Recent successes in access - to ballet, to Trovatore - make me hopeful for the future. Who knows, some day I may even enjoy Otello!
lol Dave is a character in Meistersinger? OMG I've gone completely nuts ... Dave Beckmesser, maybe? or was it Dave Sachs? you must have been talking about a different opera and I missed the segue ...
OH, sorry, I didn't remember that character's name! Yeah, I've watched I think as far as the evening time after the first competition, when Eva and another character are walking down the street ... that's the last scene I remember at all, anyway. Well, I'm hoping for great things from Parsifal, next season. We'll see!
OH, sorry, I didn't remember that character's name! Yeah, I've watched I think as far as the evening time after the first competition, when Eva and another character are walking down the street ... that's the last scene I remember at all, anyway. Well, I'm hoping for great things from Parsifal, next season. We'll see!
Holy mackerel, Greg, if you got bored with Meistersinger I think you might find Parsifal heavy-going. I'm still struggling with it though I like everything else I've seen/heard by Wagner (including Rienzi)
lol well you know, too many people love it! It must be something there that I can get into ... I have faith. The idea Emiellucifuge had, that it's essentially spiritual, put me on the right track I think. Well, we'll see.
I like your attitude, Greg, I share it. If I don't like Parsifal much now I'll just persevere, I know I'll like it sooner or later. Happened to me with other Wagner operas, with Baroque opera, with Philip Glass and John Adams, with Lulu.
I should like to sing the Preislied to potential mates, but the results of wooing thus far have been less than satisfactory...
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