Organization

Conductor

Philippe Jordan

Stage director

Keith Warner

Set designer

Boris Kudlička

Costume designer

Kaspar Glarner

Lighting designer

John Bishop

Singer

Bass-baritone

Michael Volle

Hans Sachs

Tenor

David Butt Philip

Walther von Stolzing

Soprano

Hanna-Elisabeth Müller

Baritone

Wolfgang Koch

Sixtus Beckmesser

Bass

Georg Zeppenfeld

Veit Pogner

Michael Laurenz

David

Mezzo-soprano

Christina Bock

Magdalena

Martin Häßler

Fritz Kothner

Video designer

Akhila Krishnan

Peter Kellner

Nightwatchman

Evgeny Solodovnikov

Hans Foltz

Dan Paul Dumitrescu

Hans Schwarz

Nikita Ivasechko

Herman Ortel

Robert Bartneck

Augustin Moser

Ted Black

Ulrich Eisslinger

Lukas Schmidt

Balthasar Zorn

Stefan Astakhov

Konrad Nachtigall

Jörg Schneider

Kunz Vogelgesang

Wiener Staatsoper

Choir

Pijarin Wiriyasakdakul

Lehrbuben

Alexandra Anusca

Andjela Spaic

Antigoni Chalkia

Lan Gan

Mei Matsumoto

Narumi Hashioka

Aaron J. McInnis

Samuel Robertson

Paul Skalicki

G Umut Kaya

Gustav Wenzel Most

Choreographer

Karl Alfred Schreiner

Dramaturge

Barry Millington

Thomas Lang

Katleho Mokhoabane

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg -  (The Master-Singers of Nuremberg)

Vienna

Austria

The plot tells of the young knight Walther von Stolzing, who is courting the middle-class Eva Pogner and - in order to get her father's permission to marry - has to write a prize song that conforms to the rules of the Meistersinger. The fact that the two lovers, Eva and Walther, finally get together and that the young knight succeeds with his prize song is thanks to the (historically authenticated) shoemaker and master singer Hans Sachs.

Wagner's Meistersinger are tremendously demanding, tremendously successful and unsuccessful, tremendously effective. With this opera, Wagner turns for the first time back to the “real” theater of his time. Unlike the monumental Ring project, which was intended for a utopian stage of the future, unlike the Tristan, which has proved unperformable, Wagner unfolds the new work with regard to the theater culture of his time and leads it to an acclaimed premiere. And the time when Meistersinger was composed from 1861 to 1865 led to a turning point in Wagner's existence as a whole. The amnesty of 1862 made it possible for those who had been persecuted and fled to Switzerland to return to Germany. In the same year, Wagner finally separated from his first wife Minna and married Cosima Liszt-von Bülow. In 1864, the newly crowned 18-year-old King Ludwig II of Bavaria rescued him from extreme financial distress and became his most important patron, who made the world premieres of Meistersinger and Tristan possible and forced the completed Ring sections Rheingold and Walküre — against Wagner’s will and, despite many other quarrels, also saves the Bayreuth Festival company when public donations and Wagner's own funds threaten to dry up.

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Wagner,Richard

Public

The Master-Singers of Nuremberg

Approved

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