Opera Australia - Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Reviews
29 March 2024
Ensemble
Daniel Sumegi (Veit Pogner), Natalie Aroyan (Eva)
Daniel Sumegi (Veit Pogner), Stefan Vinke (Walther Von Stolzing), Warwick Fyfe (Sixtus Beckmesser), Luke Gabeddy (Fritz Kothner), Michael Kupfer-Radecky (Hans Sachs)
Ensemble
Michael Kupfer-Radecky (Hans Sachs), Natalie Aroyan (Eva), Dominica Matthews (Magdalene)

Performance reviews

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Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Opera Australia


No. of reviews: 8

Master masons: Holten’s Meistersinger comes to Melbourne
20 Nov 18 / Bachtrack
An imperfect realisation of Wagner’s comedy, but the music making more than compensates
16 Nov 18 / Limelight
One of Hitler's favourite operas gets standing ovation
16 Nov 18 / The Age
A knowing, modern yet mythic production of one of Hitler’s favourite operas
16 Nov 18 / The Conversation
Opera Australia takes on a formidable Wagner
16 Nov 18 / Herald Sun
Musically as close to a triumph as it could have been
16 Nov 18 / Australian Book Review
Opening night was musically magnificent
15 Nov 18 / Arts Hub
Poetry and dreams
15 Nov 18 / ConcertoNet (English)
Opera Australia loses its second Hans Sachs
Shane Lowrencev has withdrawn from Meistersinger, leaving the company to find its third Hans a week out from opening. He will be replaced by German baritone Michael Kupfer-Radecky.
A show of Hans: A history of Meistersinger onstage
Wagner’s comic masterpiece explores the nature of art. As Opera Australia's production opens in Melbourne, we examine why it's become a controversial target of revisionism in recent decades.
Production details
Cast
Kupfer-Radecky, Sumegi, Longmuir, Jones, Fyfe, Gabbedy, Oxley, Macfarlane, Honeyman, Anderson, Dubinsky, Vinke, Jones, Aroyan, Matthews, Tamburini, Breen
(c) Inkinen (d) Holten
Performance dates
13, 17(m), 19, 22 November 2018
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