Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Royal Opera
Sunny, unseasonal festivities, though this strong revival doesn't plumb all Wagner's depths
Tuesday, 20 December 2011
Wolfgang Koch's Hans Sachs wins Walter (Simon O'Neill) round to society as well as his beloved Eva (Emma Bell)All images by Clive Barda
A young chap from Elsewhere woos an alderman's daughter: not Dick Whittington in panto London, but Wagner's Walter von Stolzing in an unseasonal Nuremberg. No-one is going to mind the solstitial disjunction - celebrating midsummer revels in the dead of winter - when this great saga of art and society is buoyed up by Antonio Pappano's lovingly-prepared conducting, a good cast, lusty chorus and colourful costumes. Yet only folk determined on seasonal jollity to the exclusion of all else might not feel a certain want of the darker side to the human predicament which ought to pave the way to comic reconciliation.
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