Date/Time
Saturday 21 Sep 2024
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Walther von Stolzing confronts the pedantic and unimaginative Mastersingers and their apprentices by invoking his idol, the medieval Minnesinger Walther von der Vogelweide. Marco Jentzsch as Walther von Stolzing and Gerald Finley as Hans Sachs.
A private cinema showing of Act 1 of ‘Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg‘, in a superb production at Glyndebourne conducted by Vladimir Jurowski and directed by Sir David McVicar, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and The Glyndebourne Chorus. Other principal singers are Johannes Martin Kränzle as Sixtus Beckmesser, Alastair Miles as Veit Pogner, Anna Gabler as Eva, Topi Lehtipuu as David and Michaela Selinger as Magdalene. The cinema showing will be in the Elizabeth Picture Theatre, 175 Elizabeth Street, Brisbane, followed by a reception in the beautiful adjoining reception room with Prosecco and French Cake. Sponsored by Richard Hartley. The showing will be from 3:00pm to 4:30pm followed by refreshments.
All members of the Society will be sent Peter Bassett’s 40-page eBook on Wagner’s Die Meistersinger, with the author’s compliments. This eBook has chapters on the action of the music drama; an analysis of the Prelude; dramatic influences on this wonderful work; ‘Winter and Spring imagery in Die Walküre and Die Meistersinger‘; the fiction of ‘The Jew in the Thornbush’, and ‘Is Beckmesser a caricature of Hanslick?’ If you don’t receive your free copy, please email: pgbassett@outlook.com and it will be sent to you.
To register for the Cinema showing on 21st September, please advise our Secretary Alpha Yap at alphayap60@gmail.com. Instead of the usual payment of $15 for members and $20 for guests, you are invited to make a donation to the Society’s donations bank account, Bank of Queensland BSB 124-021, Account Number 2261-2915. This is because our ‘Afternoon at the Movies’ in September is being generously sponsored by our member Richard Hartley. Your donation though, would be most welcome and gratefully received.