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Wachner and Washington Chorus deftly navigate 'Essential Wagner'
Washington Post
Wagner is a challenge to conduct, especially with an orchestra that doesn't regularly play together, and Wachner didn't shy away from the big guns: Isolde's “Liebestod” from “Tristan und Isolde,” the overture to “Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg,” and ...
Wagner program reconciled the beauty of the music with the complexity of the manExaminer.com

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The essential Wagner at the Kennedy Center
Washington Examiner
The program closes with a semistaged 'Die Meistersinger' to give an extra flair." The concert brings together choral highlights and arias from "The Flying Dutchman," "Tannhauser," "Tristan und Isolde," "Lohengrin" "Die Walkure" and "Die Meistersinger ...

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Telegraph.co.uk
Master singer brought lieder to life
The Australian
He was highly successful at the Bayreuth Festival, where he made his debut in 1954 and appeared in Lohengrin, Tannhauser, Die Meistersinger (as Kothner), and Parsifal. His long list of roles in standard repertoire included Mozart's Count in The ...
Renowned baritone Fischer-Dieskau dead at 86Reuters

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The Economist
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
The Economist
Opera, at first, seemed a less natural fit for him, but he worked at his acting until he became famous for Hans Sachs in “Die Meistersinger”, the count in “The Marriage of Figaro”, even Verdi's rollicking Falstaff—despite his feeling that, ...
German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau diesallvoices

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'Four Rebels' chorus theme
St. Augustine Record
More than two centuries later in 1867, the German-born Richard Wagner, who wrote both the music and libretto for every one of his stage works, composed his only comic opera, “Die Meistersinger” which was also the only mature Wagner opera to be based on ...


 
Austin Pendleton Directs Boston Midsummer Opera's DON PASQUALE, 7/25-29
Broadway World
As a Tanglewood Institute Fellow, Mr. Richardson sang the role of Vogelgesang in Act III of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg under the baton of Maestro James Levine and also performed solos in Stravinsky's Pulcinella with Maestro Rafael Frühbeck ...

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Spring Instrumental Concerts Begin May 22
Patch.com
The Seventh-Eighth Grade Orchestra will perform a range of classical pieces, including an arrangement of Die Meistersinger by Richard Wagner and works by living composers Elliot del Borgo and Bob Phillips. Phillips' "Classically Bluegrass" is an upbeat ...

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