Category: Die Meistersinger

Jonathan Finney

Balthasar Zorn

Die Meistersinger – Hans Schwarz

Saffron Hall celebrated its first birthday with the best performance of Die Meistersinger that I have witnessed for 40 years. …

Strong Wagnerian Debut for New Saffron Opera Group

United Kingdom Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Soloists, Saffron Opera Group Chorus, St Albans Symphony …

I don’t suppose that anyone who wasn’t in Saffron Hall, the splendid new concert venue in Saffron Walden, will believe …

King Marke

Veit Pogner

Hans Sachs

Die Meistersinger – Magdalene

Die Meistersinger – Eva Das Rheingold – Freia

Edward Christian-Hare
- Since its inaugural performance of Die Meistersinger in 2014, the Saffron Opera Group (SOG) has presented eight of Wagner’s ten canonical operas in rural Essex.
Peter Reed – Opera Magazine
- Ten years ago Saffron Opera group made its debut at Saffron Hall with Wagner’s comedy of aesthetics
Katie Barnes
- Saffron Opera Group celebrated its tenth anniversary with the opera that got them started, Die Meistersinger.
Jim Pritchard – Seen and Heard International
- Saffron Opera Group’s Meistersinger for its 10th anniversary was a triumph over adversity
Flora Willson – The Guardian
- The ambitious Saffron Opera Group’s concert performance of Wagner’s opera had lost its leading man ...
Geoff Brown – The Times
- "this gimmick-free Wagner won me over"