Forget Brexit for a moment. Can I recommend (having seen it last night) @FulhamOpera’s production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, at the Greenwood Theatre near London Bridge.
Tickets for the last performance on Saturday here. fulhamopera.com/tickets
It’s a reduced orchestra - but the benefit is that you hear bits of Wagner’s orchestration and contrapuntal writing that you may not have noticed before, even if you think you know this marvellous score.
The cast are very good. And the reduced orchestra.
It achieves Wagner’s (slightly optimistic tbh) ambition that his masterpiece would be performed as a community opera
I love this opera. It is probably too long but I couldn’t cut any of it. The music is extraordinary and beautiful throughout. And its central theme of how to reconcile community and tradition with innovation and freedom are pretty relevant now (oh dear: Brexit creeping back).
I rather liked the idea of the Meistersinger as the local Rotary Club. They are: and if you are a bit snobbish about Rotary Clubs (like Walther in the opera) perhaps you should see the opera./end
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