Die Meistersinger - live stream from Glyndebourne- 2.45 pm UK time Sunday

[Brian]

Just spotted this on the Guardian's website: "The Guardian will be streaming the final performance [of Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg] live from Glyndebourne on Sunday 26 June from 2.45pm." That's 9.45am US east coast time. Not clear what the link will be but it should be accessible from the newspaper's homepage. This will be a video streaming event.

Cast

Hans Sachs Gerald Finley
Walther von Stolzing Marco Jentzsch
David Topi Lehtipuu
Sixtus Beckmesser Johannes Martin Kränzle
Eva Anna Gabler
Magdalene Michaela Selinger

Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski
London Philharmonic Orchestra
The Glyndebourne Chorus

It's received glowing reviews from all the UK press and the Wall Street Journal.

[Amfortas]

Thanks for letting us know. Love the name of the tenor singing David, must be Finnish

[Brian]

Fixed an error in the original post - the American time is in am, not pm!

[Brian]

Good news: you can watch any time in the upcoming week:

"The Guardian is streaming two live opera performances from Glyndebourne – Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (26 June 2011) and The Turn of the Screw (21 August 2011). On-demand videos of the performance will be available to view here for seven days after the event."

[Brian]

The performance begins in about five minutes.
Medium resolution stream: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/interactive/2011/jun/26/glyndebourne-live-stream-die-meistersinger-wagner-medium-res
High-res page isn't working yet 

[Brian]

High-resolution streaming

They're still tuning, so grab a drink!

[Amfortas]

Watching in the US, the audio is excellent 

Won't have time for it all today, I'll sample it later

[Brian]

These are really authentic-looking pints of beer that the chorus are all drinking in the final scene 

[kishnevi]

Thanks for letting us know. Love the name of the tenor singing David, must be Finnish

Just noticed this.   
I have three or four recordings which feature him, all early or high Baroque:
1) a CD of tenor arias that is part of Naive's Vivaldi Edition
2) on Emmanuelle Haim CD of Monteverdi which features Rolando Villazon (Combattimento) and possibly on the followup CD (Lamenti) where he might be among the singers--don't have it handy to check
3) as Lurcanio in the Alan Curtis recording of Ariodante which features Joyce DiDonato

Don't know if this Wagner role is a change of pace for him or if it's simply that Baroque is overrepresented in his discography.  IIRC, he was born and raised in Australia, but his parents are Finns and he now makes his home in Finland.

[Amfortas]

Just noticed this.   
I have three or four recordings which feature him, all early or high Baroque:
1) a CD of tenor arias that is part of Naive's Vivaldi Edition
2) on Emmanuelle Haim CD of Monteverdi which features Rolando Villazon (Combattimento) and possibly on the followup CD (Lamenti) where he might be among the singers--don't have it handy to check
3) as Lurcanio in the Alan Curtis recording of Ariodante which features Joyce DiDonato

Don't know if this Wagner role is a change of pace for him or if it's simply that Baroque is overrepresented in his discography.  IIRC, he was born and raised in Australia, but his parents are Finns and he now makes his home in Finland.

Thanks for the info Jeffrey. I had a friend with your exact name here in the Boston area. An opera lover, but unfortunately no longer with us.