Organization

Stage director

Stage director (+4)

Johannes Erath

Set designer

Set designer (+1)

Kaspar Glarner

Costume designer

Set designer (+2)

Herbert Murauer

Lighting designer

Lighting designer (+1)

Joachim Klein

Video

Bibi Abel

Chorusmaster

Chorusmaster (+2)

Tilman Michael

Dramaturge

Zsolt Horpácsy

Bass-baritone (+4)

Nicholas Brownlee

Hans Sachs

Baritone (+6)

Michael Nagy

Sixtus Beckmesser

Soprano

Magdalena Hinterdobler

Tenor (+1)

AJ Glueckert

Walther von Stolzing

Tenor (+2)

Michael Porter

David

Samuel Levine

Kunz Vogelgesang

Bass (+3)

Barnaby Rea

Konrad Nachtigall

Jonathan Abernethy

Balthasar Zorn

Tenor (+4)

Hans-Jürgen Lazar

Ulrich Eisslinger

Andrew Bidlack

Augustin Moser

Baritone (+5)

Sebastian Geyer

Herman Ortel

Bass (+4)

Anthony Robin Schneider

Hans Schwarz

Bass-baritone (+3)

Božidar Smiljanić

Hans Foltz

Soprano (+4)

Maren Favela

Lehrbuben

Mezzo-soprano (+3)

Chiara Bäuml

Helene Feldbauer

Mezzo-soprano (+1)

Guénaelle Mörth

Tianji Lin

Carlos Andrés Cárdenas

Donát Havár

Istvan Balotá

Kiduck Kwon

Johannes Lehner

Bass (+5)

Georg Zeppenfeld

Veit Pogner

Oper Frankfurt

Orchestra

Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

Opernhaus

Chorus

Choir of the Frankfurt Opera

Conductor

Conductor (+1)

Sebastian Weigle

Andreas Bauer Kanabas

Thomas Faulkner

Fritz Kothner

Baritone (+4)

Franz Mayer

Nightwatchman

Claudia Mahnke

Magdalena

Conductor (+4)

Takeshi Moriuchi

Tobias Schabel

Mezzo-soprano (+5)

Annika Schlicht

Baritone (+2)

Domen Križaj

Kihwan Sim

Christina Bock

The competition takes place on St. John's Day. Everyone knows exactly how to sing properly. Everyone knows better.

Die Meistersinger was supposed to be a satyr play . However, the comedy »from a light hand« developed into a score that is one of the longest and most complex in opera literature and repeatedly causes heated debates. In contrast to the templates, which emanated from an aristocratic worldview, Wagner composed Die Meistersinger , a bourgeois opera and parody of medieval minnesingers.

Around midsummer, in the annual singing competition, goldsmith Veit Pogner offers his daughter Eva's hand as a prize. The shoemaker Hans Sachs, the town clerk Sixtus Beckmesser and a cheeky newcomer, the noble Walther von Stolzing, fight for her. Everyone does it with their own means: Walther has to overcome a number of hurdles before he can marry Eva and be accepted into the circle of masters. Between Sachs and Beckmesser it only seems to be about who is allowed to marry the bride. Two fundamentally different ways of life collide here. But the two complement each other in their different views. They are inseparable: one cannot exist without the other.

The emergence of the Meistersinger leads through two decades, across Europe. Wagner wrote the first drafts in Bohemia, the prose drafts came about in Vienna and he continued to shape his characters in a Parisian hotel room. So some of Wagner's German masters were born abroad. The composer had in mind an interplay of comedy and tragedy. But in the dreamy summer night, the game is suddenly dominated by madness and ends in a senseless mass brawl.

A "strange" St. John's Day.

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