Sentence examples for master singer from inspiring English sources

Though no master singer, Walther has a raw talent for extemporaneous poetry and song.

Sacred dance and music will be performed by the Whirling Dervishes of Damascus, the master singer Sheikh Hamza Shakkur and the Al-Kindi Ensemble.

The tenor Ben Heppner is back as Walther, the young knight who sets out to become a master singer only to win the hand of Eva.

The plot turns on the public promise by the master singer Pogner, a goldsmith, to award the hand of his beloved Eva, his only child, to the winner of the singing contest.

His dream of marrying Eva, the daughter of his fellow master singer Pogner, by winning the guild's annual song contest, and his scheming to outmaneuver Sachs show him to be hapless, not nasty or stupid.

No longer is it the story of Walther von Stolzing as the dashing young knight whose raw musical gifts are tamed by the selfless cobbler and master singer, Hans Sachs: no longer nature made into art, modernity bowing to tradition and also the other way around, the opera's classic themes.

Their second idea was to bring back a series of genuine Wagnerian master singers of the recent past in the cameos of the Nuremberg masters.

Many guild workmen and tradesmen of that day practiced a type of singing based on elaborate rules; to become meistersingers ("master singers"), they had to prove themselves in a contest.

The cast over all was admirable, especially the distinguished German baritone Michael Volle, who brought the requisite gravitas and poignant vulnerability to his portrayal of the wise widower Hans Sachs, a shoemaker and the most beloved member of the guild of master singers in the medieval German city of Nürnberg, where the story is set.

The German guilds of Meistersingers ("master singers") flourished from the 14th to the 16th century, and the earlier French guilds of troubadours were associated with secular music, whereas groups such as the Compagnia de Gonfalone (Rome, 1264) and the Confrérie de la Passion (Paris, 1402) were formed for the performance of sacred music.

The original reason for bringing it back was that the great bass James Morris was planning to sing his first Hans Sachs, one of opera's longest roles, Wagner's wise shoemaker, a widower in medieval Nurnberg and the most beloved member of the town's guild of master singers.