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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.
general audience, movie lovers
opera live performance, the metropolitan opera
United States of America
asHans Sachs
asEva
asWalther von Stolzing
asSixtus Beckmesser
asVeit Pogner
asDavid
asMagdalene
asNachtwächter
asKunz Vogelgesang
asKonrad Nachtigall
asFritz Kothner
asBalthasar Zorn
asUlrich Eisslinger
asAugustin Moser
asHermann Ortel
asHans Schwarz
asHans Foltz
asSelf - Conductor
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