Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Michael Volle as Hans Sachs
- Annette Dasch as Eva
- Johan Botha as Walther von Stolzing
- Johannes Martin Kränzle as Sixtus Beckmesser
- Hans-Peter König as Veit Pogner
- Paul Appleby as David
- Karen Cargill as Magdalene
- Matthew Rose as Nachtwächter
- Martin Hochmann as Kunz Vogelgesang
- David Crawford as Konrad Nachtigall
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