The Metropolitan Opera: The Master-Singers of Nuremberg (2014)
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.
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Slow pace in the most part of the movie.
Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.