James Levine leads a stirring performance of Wagner’s epic comedy, seen in Otto Schenk’s classic production. Baritone Michael Volle stars as Hans Sachs, the cobbler-poet at the heart of this story of love, art, and youth vs. age. Leading Wagnerian tenor Johan Botha is Walther von Stolzing, the young knight whose new ideas upset the traditional ways of the mastersingers, and Annette Dasch sings Eva, the girl he loves, whose hand has been promised to the winner of a singing contest. Johannes Martin Kränzle as the pedantic town clerk Beckmesser, Hans-Peter König as Pogner, Eva’s father, and Paul Appleby as David, Sachs’s apprentice complete the stellar cast.
Directed by Otto Schenk
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Cast
Michael Volle
Hans Sachs
Annette Dasch
Eva
Johan Botha
Walther von Stolzing
Johannes Martin Kränzle
Sixtus Beckmesser
Hans-Peter König
Veit Pogner
Paul Appleby
David
Karen Cargill
Magdalene
Matthew Rose
Nachtwächter
Martin Hochmann
Kunz Vogelgesang
David Crawford
Konrad Nachtigall
Martin Gantner
Fritz Kothner
Joseph Hu
Balthasar Zorn
Scott Scully
Ulrich Eisslinger
David Cangelosi
Augustin Moser
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