Opera in Depth with David Nice: Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the
Frontline Club
12 January – 16 March 2015 14.30-16.30
In the second term of his new Opera in Depth course at the Frontline
Club, a year of epics, David Nice devotes 10 two-hour classes to Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - a
masterpiece that will never outstay its welcome. David, who has now explored
all the major Wagner operas over 25 years of opera classes, last took students
through Meistersinger five years at
the time of Richard Jones’s revelatory new production for Welsh National Opera
with Bryn Terfel making his role debut as Sachs.
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Now, with fast-rising Wagnerian
bass-baritone Iain Paterson as the lynchpin, Jones’s production moves to
English National Opera, with some rethinks promised. Richard twice visited
David’s Opera in Focus classes at the City Literary Institute, discussing Meistersinger and Gloriana, and he has promised to pay another visit this time. Come
and enjoy total immersion in an inexhaustibly rich and beautiful opera. Fully
illustrated with sound clips and DVD production scenes on the Frontline’s big
screen. The Club has excellent facilities: you are invited to enjoy
refreshments in the main room on the first floor for half an hour before and after
the classes, and the restaurant is warmly recommended. There are, however, two
flights of stairs to negotiate.
David is a writer, lecturer and regular BBC
broadcaster. The author of short studies on Elgar, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky,
Tchaikovsky and the history of opera, he has already written the first volume
of his Prokofiev biography for Yale University Press (From Russia to the West
1891-1935) and is currently at work on the second. His most recent Building a
Library for BBC Radio 3’s CD Review was on Parsifal and he contributed an
article on works influenced by the Ring for the Royal Opera programme.
Contact David to book a place on this
highly popular course: david.nice@usa.net
You might also want to check out his website by clicking here
Below is a video interview from last year:
