Wagner - Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg / Heppner, Mattila, Morris, Pape, Allen, Polenzani, Levine, Metropolitan Opera
by Hans-Joachim Ketelsen
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Actor: Ben Heppner, James Morris, Karita Mattila, Matthew Polenzani, Rene PapeDirector: Hans-Joachim Ketelsen
Conductor: James Levine
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: German (Original Language); German (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Chinese (Subtitled); English (Dubbed); French (Dubbed); German (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Classical, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 292 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-01-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Deutsche Grammophon
Movie Reviews of Wagner - Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg / Heppner, Mattila, Morris, Pape, Allen, Polenzani, Levine, Metropolitan Opera
Movie Review: Really a "great performancd"
Summary: 5 Stars
As an old Wagner dog of 60 years standing, I have to say this is an extraordinary DVD, and must have been one of the great nights at the new Met. Only the fact that Heppner looks, as one wag has put it, like Wallace Beery in drag, detracts (but he sounds glorious! and acts well enough)--and, well, the close-up camera occasionally reveals that the otherwise beautiful Mattila is perhaps not exactly 18. She, too, sings like an angel, and acts with great specificity. The actor par excellence is Thomas Allen, as Beckmesser, who is simply amazing, and he too is in fine voice, even commanding a high A towards the end of his role. Polanzani, as David, is also excelleent, though again perhaps not exactly appearing the age of his part.
The central figure, however, is absolutely magisterial: Morris looks, acts, and sings exactly as one dreams Sachs might. He still has all the voice to command, and it is clearly the best heldenbariton since Hotter, his teacher in Wagnerian roles, and in fact I find it a bigger, warmer and more moving voice, qua voice, than his predecessor's. His interpretation is deeply moving.
Levine conducts a glowing performance--you know it's going to be that way just from watching the sheer joy he derives from leading the orchestra through the Act one prelude.
The camera work is unexceptionable, and I have very glad to have these images of a solid, traditonal staging--no Eurotrash here.
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