Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg?...a question for the opera queens

[+ purplekow]

Lief it alone.

[bostonman]

I can't stop myself: It's Leit Motif, not Leif Motif.

 

It's neither one. The (single) word is "leitmotif."

[+ Charlie]

It's actually Leitmotif (nouns are capitalized in German).

[bostonman]

It's actually Leitmotif (nouns are capitalized in German).

 

Indeed they are - thank you.

[BasketBaller]

I think Die Meistersinger is glorious, one of my favorite operas of all. The final scene, with the song contest, is amazingto me, but I'm a Wagner fan. I have a pretty long attention span, and yet don't know what I'd have thought if it was my first live opera. And the problem with the idea of trying the first act and leaving if you don't like it, is that act one is the least interesting dramatically. I agree with the suggestion to listen and/or watch a video to see how it appeals to you before you decide.

[whipped guy]

It's actually Leitmotif (nouns are capitalized in German).

It's actually Leitmotiv in German. The English equivalent is leitmotif or leitmotiv.

[+ Charlie]

It's actually Leitmotiv in German. The English equivalent is leitmotif or leitmotiv.

The final and definitive answer.

[whipped guy]

The final and definitive answer.

Well, I actually hesitated to post the correction because I consider the esteemed @Charlie the dean of this forum, a person for whom I have much respect because he is knowledgeable on so many subjects, and that certainly includes operatic matters.

[AdamSmith]

One more thing about appreciating Wagner. You have to penetrate through those thick layers of his narrative content being so shot through with the Vaterland cultural schlock of his era, in order to arrive at and hear the aesthetic content.

 

(The divine Ludwig van indulged some of that same schlock in agreeing with the contemporary judgment of Schiller as a great & permanent fixture.)

 

Internalizing it is, as with most anything German, a lot of work.

 

P.S. Probably the supremest example of all would be Goethe.

[+ Charlie]

Well, I actually hesitated to post the correction because I consider the esteemed @Charlie the dean of this forum, a person for whom I have much respect because he is knowledgeable on so many subjects, and that certainly includes operatic matters.

I blusho_O