From the Deutsche Oper, Berlin
Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos - conductor
Götz Friedrich - stage director

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Solisten/Soloists:
Wolfgang Brendel - Hans Sachs
Victor von Halem - Veit Pogner
David Griffith - Kunz Vogelsang
Barry McDaniel - Konrad Nachtigall
Eike Wilm Schulte - Sixtus Beckmesser
Lenus Carlson - Fritz Kothner
Volker Horn - Balthasar Zorn
Peter Maus - Ulrich Eißlinger
Otto Heuer - Augustin Moser
Klaus Lang - Hermann Ortel
Ivan Sardi - Hans Schwarz
Friedrich Molsberger - Hans Foltz
Gösta Winbergh - Walther von Stölzing
Uwe Peper - David
Eva Johansson - Eva
Ute Walther - Magdalena
Peter Edelmann - Ein Nachtwächter

Richard Wagner - Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Erster Akt / The Master-Singers of Nuremberg, First Act
Opera in three acts

This magnificent production of Wagner's masterpiece at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, brilliantly directed by Götz Friedrich and staged by Peter Sykora, was not only a great success in Berlin, but in Tokyo as well.

Synoosis of Act III: Reading a book in his study the next morning, Sachs forgives David his unruly behavior and bids him recite his St. John's Day verses. Alone, the cobbler ponders the world's madness, then greets Walther, who tells of a wondrous dream. Sachs recognizes a potential prize song; taking down the words, he helps the knight fashion them with an ear for form and symmetry. When they depart, Beckmesser limps in and noses around. Pocketing Walther's poem, he is caught by Sachs, who tells him to keep it. Beckmesser, certain of victory, rushes out. Eva now visits Sachs on the pretext of a pinching shoe; Walther returns dressed for the festival and repeats his prize song for her. She is torn between the two men, but the wise older man turns her to the younger. When Magdalene comes in, Sachs promotes David to journeyman with a box on the ear and asks Eva to bless the new song, which all five join in praising. Then they go off to the contest.

In a meadow outside the city, guilds and citizens assemble under festive banners. After a joyful waltz, the Masters file in, Sachs getting a spontaneous hand from his people, which in turn inspires moving thanks from him. The contest opens as Beckmesser nervously tries to fit Walther's verses to his own music but forgets the words and distorts them, earning laughter from the crowd. The clerk turns furiously on Sachs and stumbles off. After rightful delivery of the song by Walther, the people are entranced, but Walther refuses the Masters' medallion. Sachs, however, convinces him otherwise, extolling tradition and its upholders as well as its fresh innovators. Youth makes its pact with age, Walther has won Eva, and the people hail Sachs once more as Eva crowns him with Walther's wreath.

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