Each artist offers something different - comparing Finley to Terfel or others is meaningless. He is wonderful in every way - tone, musicianship, style and makes a very believable Sachs. This is a wonderful clip. Bravo Mr. Finley! (too bad it ends abruptly)
in my opinion a wonderful Sachs. And why not a Sachs in his beginning forties? Why not a Sachs who would make a real alternative to Stolzing in Evas eyes? If there will be a DVD of this Meistersinger Performance it will be mine for certain!
I can tell you why. Meistersinger is the only opera of Wagner that can basically be pinpointed to an exact historical date. The real sachs was way in his 60's when he was a widower (as he tells us in the opera a little later). So you can sing it in your 40's but the make-up artist should make it clear that the character is nearing his 70's.
@@Quotenwagnerianer This is completely irrelevant. Wagner's Hans Sachs is not the historical Hans Sachs; though he took a lot of detail from history, Wagner wrote an opera, a work of art, not a documentary. And I know of no part of the opera where Sachs volunteers his age. Nor have I seen any production where the make-up artist does as you suggest - nor should they.
A good lyric bass-bariton-voice. It sounds like he is leaning on Terfel's singing. Including the same problems of singing top notes on vocal "a" -like "andate" - in a way too blank. This will cause serious problems . Not now, but soon. Especially, if the voice (at this time) is not strong enough for Wagner. That could be reason, not to sing Wagner now.
Beautiful, lieder-style singing but he's too young (vocally and physically) for the role as yet. It needs more gravitas and heft (listen to the end of Act 3) but in ten years' time Finley could conquer the world as Sachs. If he still wants to, of course...
Each artist offers something different - comparing Finley to Terfel or others is meaningless. He is wonderful in every way - tone, musicianship, style and makes a very believable Sachs. This is a wonderful clip. Bravo Mr. Finley! (too bad it ends abruptly)
Great!!!
stupendo!
bello!
in my opinion a wonderful Sachs. And why not a Sachs in his beginning forties? Why not a Sachs who would make a real alternative to Stolzing in Evas eyes? If there will be a DVD of this Meistersinger Performance it will be mine for certain!
I can tell you why. Meistersinger is the only opera of Wagner that can basically be pinpointed to an exact historical date. The real sachs was way in his 60's when he was a widower (as he tells us in the opera a little later). So you can sing it in your 40's but the make-up artist should make it clear that the character is nearing his 70's.
@@Quotenwagnerianer This is completely irrelevant. Wagner's Hans Sachs is not the historical Hans Sachs; though he took a lot of detail from history, Wagner wrote an opera, a work of art, not a documentary. And I know of no part of the opera where Sachs volunteers his age. Nor have I seen any production where the make-up artist does as you suggest - nor should they.
Could anybody upload the whole production, please?
A good lyric bass-bariton-voice. It sounds like he is leaning on Terfel's singing. Including the same problems of singing top notes on vocal "a" -like "andate" - in a way too blank. This will cause serious problems . Not now, but soon. Especially, if the voice (at this time) is not strong enough for Wagner. That could be reason, not to sing Wagner now.
Beautiful, lieder-style singing but he's too young (vocally and physically) for the role as yet. It needs more gravitas and heft (listen to the end of Act 3) but in ten years' time Finley could conquer the world as Sachs. If he still wants to, of course...
Finley is a superb artist, but a real MISCAST as Sachs.