James Levine conducts a concert performance of Act III of Wagner's "Meistersinger" and two staged performances of Mozart's "Don Giovanni".
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The performance of Act II should seem twice as phenomenal as this film allows it to be.
In 2000, to Mr. Spratlan's astonished delight, a concert performance of Act II at Amherst College, where he taught, earned him the Pulitzer Prize in music.
Yet for whatever reasons, he seemed in a subdued mode, especially on Thursday, when he conducted the Adagio from Mahler's 10th Symphony and a concert performance of Act II of Wagner's "Parsifal".
But a planned production fell through, and there are still no solid plans to produce the opera, even though a concert performance of Act II brought Mr. Spratlan the Pulitzer Prize for music in 2001.
Of note, a special anniversary concert with 20 of the best pianists and violinists (July 28) and a performance of Act I of Verdi's "Otello" and Act III of Wagner's "Walküre," conducted by the ubiquitous Mr. Gergiev and sung by Anna Netrebko, Bryn Terfel and Eva-Maria Westbroek (July 25).
The Metropolitan Opera opened its 119th season on Monday night with a gala performance of Act II of Giordano's "Fedora," Act II of Saint-Saëns's "Samson et Dalila" and Act IV of Verdi's "Otello," a suitably festive yet substantial program that fulfilled several goals at once.
John Christie, who founded the festival in the early 1930s, thought of creating an "English Bayreuth" and once took the part of Beckmesser in a piano-accompanied performance of Act 3, Scene 1 of "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" in the estate's organ room.
Nagel thinks this position is just an unproblematic simplification on the grounds that he treats the performance "of act B as a degenerate case of promoting the occurrence of act B" (Nagel 1970: 47).
