This year, during February and March, will see the London premiere of Richard Jones’s acclaimed staging of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Conducted by Edward Gardner, with a fine cast that includes Iain Paterson performing his first Sachs, Andrew Shore making his stage role debut as Beckmesser and the wonderful Rachel Nicholls performing Eva (you can read an interview with Rachel we conducted earlier in her Wagnerian career, here). Full details can be found below.While it would be difficult to imagine anyone not attempting to attend, two readers of the Wagnerian will be able to do so for free. ENO have kindly offered two VIP tickets, for a date of your choosing, to this the most "accessible" - and far more Schopenhauerian then some might admit - of Wagner's work.
As regular readers will know, we do like to keep things simple, so in-order to win these tickets you need only answer the following question:
In what year, did Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg first premiere?
You can send your answer in one of 3 ways:
On Twitter: Simply reply with the hashtag #enowagnerian
On FaceBook: Simply reply with the answer in the comments section
By email: Send an email with the subject matter "Wagnerian/ENO Competition to: contact@the-wagnerian.
Closing date Monday 26 January 2015
The winner will be announced by Friday 29 January
Once selected, by a random draw, the winner will need to provide contact details. All contact after this will be directly with ENO
Terms and conditions apply
Good Luck!
The Mastersingers of Nuremberg is sung and surtitled in English | Running time: 5hrs 40mins
Pre-performance talk with musicologist John Deathridge plus members of the ENO orchestra: 18 Feb, 5.15 – 6pm, £5/£2.50 concs. Signed performance 3 Mar.
Production originated at Welsh National Opera. New production supported by Mr & Mrs J. Shafran, Deirdre & Thomas Lynch, Peter & Fiona Espenhahn, Mrs B M Espenhahn, Beth and Gary Glynn, a syndicate of individual donors and the Friends of ENO
The Mastersingers of Nuremberg cast and creative team
Hans Sachs Iain Paterson
Eva Rachel Nicholls
Beckmesser Andrew Shore
Pogner James Creswell
Walther von Stolzing Gwyn Hughes Jones
David Nicky Spence
Kothner David Stout
Magdalene Madeleine Shaw
Night Watchman Nicholas Crawley
Conductor Edward Gardner
Director Richard Jones
Set Designer Paul Steinberg
Costume Designer Buki Shiff
Lighting Designer Mimi Jordan Sherin
Choreographer Lucy Burge
Librettist Richard Wagner after various historical and literary sources
Translation Adapted from Frederic Jameson
Sung In English
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