Released:
2014-12-13

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:
Otto Schenk

Runtime:
5h 9min

Genre:
Music, Comedy

• Cast:
• 
  Michael Volle
  as
  Hans Sachs
• 
  Johan Botha
  as
  Walther von Stolzing
• 
  Annette Dasch
  as
  Eva
• 
  James Levine
• 
  MET Orchestra