Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Metropolitan Opera
movie
View on VideBits →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.
Cast & crew
Johannes Martin Kränzle · Annette Dasch · Martin Hochmann · Matthew Rose · Otto Schenk · Paul Appleby · James Levine · David Crawford · Michael Volle · MET Orchestra · Karen Cargill · Hans-Peter König · Richard Wagner · Johan Botha