Lauritz Melchior - Prize Song Act III Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg rare Brunswick version (1868)
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Lauritz Melchior sings Prize Song from Act III of Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
Opening line is "Morgenlich leuchtend im rosigen Schein."
Melchior is the most important Heldentenor in the history of opera. Such a tenor was needed for Wagner's operas--a tenor with great stamina (or singing technique that allows for stamina) and enough power to project over a 120 piece orchestra. Heldentenors are not associated with Bel Canto singing ( or with voices that are light and flexible).
Melchior's recordings are far more impressive than those by earlier Heldentenors such as Leo Slezak and Karl Jorn.
This Prize Song is from Wagner's one comic opera.
The opera is about a young knight, Walther von Stolzing, who visits Nuremberg. He falls in love with Eva, but to marry her, he must enter and win a competition--a singing or song contest! The prize is her hand in marriage. Walther's song (Morgen ich leuchte in rosigem Schein) charms the entire assembly at the opera's end--and charms us, the opera-goers.
The opera's premiere was at the Königliches Hof- und National-Theater, Munich, on June 21, 1868.
Opening line is "Morgenlich leuchtend im rosigen Schein."
Melchior is the most important Heldentenor in the history of opera. Such a tenor was needed for Wagner's operas--a tenor with great stamina (or singing technique that allows for stamina) and enough power to project over a 120 piece orchestra. Heldentenors are not associated with Bel Canto singing ( or with voices that are light and flexible).
Melchior's recordings are far more impressive than those by earlier Heldentenors such as Leo Slezak and Karl Jorn.
This Prize Song is from Wagner's one comic opera.
The opera is about a young knight, Walther von Stolzing, who visits Nuremberg. He falls in love with Eva, but to marry her, he must enter and win a competition--a singing or song contest! The prize is her hand in marriage. Walther's song (Morgen ich leuchte in rosigem Schein) charms the entire assembly at the opera's end--and charms us, the opera-goers.
The opera's premiere was at the Königliches Hof- und National-Theater, Munich, on June 21, 1868.