- compromise: he will be
quiet and let
Beckmesser sing, but he (Sachs) will be
Beckmesser's "marker", and mark each of
Beckmesser's musical/poetical
errors by striking...
- latter, with the
support of the
powerful critic Eduard Hanslick (of whom
Beckmesser in
Meistersinger is in part a caricature),
championed traditional forms...
-
years and
appeared worldwide in
leading roles. His
signature role was
Beckmesser in Wagner's Die
Meistersinger von Nürnberg. He was
awarded the
title of...
-
particular the
characters of Mime in the Ring,
Klingsor in
Parsifal and
Sixtus Beckmesser in Die
Meistersinger are
supposedly Jewish stereotypes,
although none...
- His
roles at the
Wiener Staatsoper includes Papageno (The
Magic Flute),
Beckmesser (Die
Meistersinger von Nürnberg),
Marcello (La Bohème),
Count Almaviva...
- that - "the
setting is
outside the
cigarette factory in old Nuremburg.
Beckmesser woos Azucena, the ****-kitten of the
tobacco girls. Ot****o
rides in with...
-
another Zeffirelli production).
Other roles in
which he was
celebrated were
Beckmesser in Die Meistersinger, Figaro, Don
Pizarro in Fidelio, the
title role in...
- in
Strauss operas and
tackled lighter Wagner roles such as
Wolfram or
Beckmesser. Fischer-Dieskau sang
parts in 'fringe'
operas by the
likes of Ferruccio...
- Prey
limited his
Wagner to the soft, high-baritone
roles Wolfram and
Beckmesser. He can be seen on
video in the
latter role,
opposite Bernd Weikl. In...
-
Hanslick in his
opera Die
Meistersinger von Nürnberg as the
carping critic Beckmesser (whose name was
originally to be Veit Hanslich). Hanslick's
unpaid lectureship...
