(5) She Sings For Me - The Met

Annette Dasch and James Morris

The lengthy Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg was at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City last season.

(4) She Sings For Me - The Piece

"Selig, wie die Sonne" is the operatic piece (Quintet from Act III) that Holly hears from inside her neighbor's house.

 

(3) She Sings For Me - The Cobbler

One main character in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg is the real-life mastersinger Hans Sachs, who was a cobbler and poet. Coincidentally for Holly, in Davey's short film "She Sings for Me," the man she encounters in her neighborhood is a shoemaker (i.e. cobbler).
 

(2) She Sings For Me - The Opera

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In the 16th century Nuremberg was one center of the Renaissance in Northern Europe. Wagner's opera is about the real-life guild of Master Singers, i.e. a gathering of middle class poets and musicians who plied their art like craftsmen.
 

(1) She Sings For Me - The Short

Rebecca Davey fashions a lovely romantic comedy from Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
 

Playwriting (27) A guide to creating verbatim theatre

Verbatim theatre is a type of theatre-making where the text is generated from interviews with 'real life' people. In this second film, Robin Belfield gives advice on how to create your own piece of verbatim theatre.

Over the next few weeks, I capture episodes of the National Theatre: Playwriting series. These are instrumental lessons, as I work at my play "The Room." The above are my notes.
 

Playwriting (26) The ethics of verbatim theatre

Maybe I ought to give a verbatim script a try, that is, drawing on quotes from housemaid interviews and stories.

You can also draw on imagination, and merge it with realism (verbatim script).

Over the next few weeks, I capture episodes of the National Theatre: Playwriting series. These are instrumental lessons, as I work at my play "The Room." The above are my notes.