{"id":18150,"date":"2015-02-20T18:49:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T07:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/?p=18150"},"modified":"2015-02-20T18:49:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T07:49:05","slug":"the-met-opera-in-hd-die-meistersinger-von-nurnberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/?p=18150","title":{"rendered":"The Met Opera in HD: Die Meistersinger von N\u00fcrnberg,"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18158\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18158\" style=\"width: 325px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18158\" alt=\"James Morris (center) as Hans Sachs in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von N\u00fcrnberg. Photo: Ken Howard\/Metropolitan Opera \" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MEIS_1231a-L-325x216.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"216\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Morris (center) as Hans Sachs in Wagner&#8217;s Die Meistersinger von N\u00fcrnberg. Photo: Ken Howard\/Metropolitan Opera<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Opening this weekend February 21st in cinemas around Sydney is Richard Wagner&#8217;s grand comedy\u00a0<em>Die Meistersinger von N\u00fcrnberg,\u00a0<\/em>filmed during a live performance at New York&#8217;s Metropolitan Opera and conducted by its Music Director James Levine<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Ren\u00e9e Fleming,\u00a0German baritone Michael Volle stars as Hans Sachs, with South African tenor Johan Botha as Walther. Botha was seen in Sydney as Max in Weber&#8217;s <em>Der Freisch\u00fctz<\/em>\u00a0about 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>German soprano Annette Dasch sings the role of Eva, German baritone Johannes Martin Kr\u00e4nzle makes his Met debut as Beckmesser, German bass Hans-Peter K\u00f6nig is Pogner, American tenor Paul Appleby is David, and Scottish mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill is Magdalene. This production will be seen in more than 2,000 cinemas in 69 countries around the world, and is part of the final revival of Otto Schenk\u2019s 1993 Met production.<\/p>\n<p>More information at: www.theMetinAustralia.info<\/p>\n<p>Tickets on sale from participating cinemas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening this weekend February 21st in cinemas around Sydney is Richard Wagner&#8217;s grand comedy\u00a0Die Meistersinger von N\u00fcrnberg,\u00a0filmed during a live performance at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"sls_format":[],"class_list":["post-18150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shows"],"acf":{"deck":"","is_featured":false,"media_type":"standard","audio_embed":"","video_url":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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