Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg)

Composer: Wagner, Richard

Librettist/Text Author: Wagner, Richard

Conductor: Weigle, Sebastian

Orchestra: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

Chorus: Bayreuth Festival Chorus

Chorus Master: Eberhard, Friedrich

A Nightwatchman: Rohlig, Friedemann

Augustin Moser: Heibach, Stefan

Balthasar Zorn: Randall, Edward

David: Ernst, Norbert

Eva: Kaune, Michaela

Fritz Kothner: Eiche, Markus

Hans Foltz: Randes, Diogenes

Hans Sachs: Hawlata, Franz

Hans Schwarz: Macco, Andreas

Hermann Ortel: Snell, Martin

Konrad Nachtigall: Zaun, Rainer

Kunz Vogelgesang: Reid, Charles

Magdalene: Guber, Carola

Sixtus Beckmesser: Volle, Michael

Ulrich Eisslinger: Lazar, Hans-Jurgen

Veit Pogner: Korn, Artur

Walther von Stolzing: Vogt, Klaus Florian

Set Designer: Steffens, Tilo

Costume Designer: Steffens, Tilo

Costume Designer: Barth, Michaela

Lighting Designer: Gruter, Andreas

Stage Director: Wagner, Katharina

Television Director: Morell, Andreas

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Date of Production: 27-07-2008

Festival: Bayreuth Festival

Venue: Bayreuth Festspielhaus

Playing Time: 04:45:00

Catalogue Number: OA1041D

UPC: 809478010302

Libretto

Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg)

Synopsis

Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg)

Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg)

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Ostensibly Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg tells a humorous tale about artistically inclined craftsmen. Goldsmith Veit Pogner promises his daughter Eva's hand in marriage to the winner of a song contest, to which three men are potentially eligible. But upon closer inspection, what is at first glance a harmless farce in a middle-class setting emerges as a profound social analysis. Wagner uses his protagonists to show how a community deals with tradition and those who break with it and just how much innovation and deviation from the norm it can tolerate ?EUR" as well as to examine what value society places, and should place, on art.

Bonus features:
- The Making of Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg