(The Metropolitan Opera: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg)

Content: 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.

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Music,

Comedy

Runtime:

309 minutes

Year:

2014

Directors:

Otto Schenk

Production companies:

The Metropolitan Opera

Actors:

Hans Sachs

Walther von Stolzing

Eva

Crews:

Compositor

Writer

Director

Conductor