Meistersinger
Americannoun
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Also a member of one of the guilds, chiefly of workingmen, established during the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries in the principal cities of Germany, for the cultivation of poetry and music.
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(italics) Die an opera (1867) by Richard Wagner.
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Etymology
Origin of Meistersinger
1835–45; < German: master singer
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In an audacious bit of counterprogramming, the Met is currently staging the longest opera in its repertory, Wagner’s nearly six-hour “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2021
John Ruskin described the comic opera “Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg” as “sapless, soulless, beginningless, endless, topless, bottomless.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2020
Excerpts from the opera “Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg” were played at the Nuremberg rallies.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2020
Holten declined, but instead asked for seven months to give him time to direct a new production of Wagner's Meistersinger early next year.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2015
Why, once I wanted to be a Meistersinger myself, but I could not manage it, even though I tried all I knew how.
From Weird Tales, Vol. II. by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)
Handel’s Messiah Orange County-based Meistersingers perform with a period-instrument ensemble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2019
Handel’s Messiah Orange County-based vocal ensemble Meistersingers performs with a period-instrument ensemble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2019
Guilds were hardly perfect – the Meistersingers were almost comically Teutonic in their earnest love of musical rules, and guild traditionalism sometimes put them behind artistic developments.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2013
His own later efforts included a second Lohengrin, another Ring cycle, two Parsifals, two Meistersingers, and a Tannhäuser.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2010
The names of the Meistersingers are well-known to musical lovers at least, because of the music drama of that name and the famous war of the Wartburg.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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