Richard Wagner
The Master Singers of Nuremberg
Dramatis Personae
‘The Singer’s Contest on the Wartburg (1846)’
Moritz von Schwind (German, 1804-1871)
Artvee
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Dramatis Personae
Master Singers:
Hans Sachs shoemaker - Baritone
Pogner goldsmith - Bass
Kuntz Vogelgesang furrier - Tenor
Konrad Nachtigall tinsmith - Bass
Sixtus Beckmesser town clerk - Bass
Fritz Kothner baker - Baritone
Balthasar Zorn pewterer - Tenor
Ulric Eisslinger grocer - Tenor
Augustus Moser tailor - Tenor
Hermann Ortel soap boiler - Bass
Hans Schwarz stocking weaver - Bass
Hans Foltz coppersmith - Bass
Walther von Stolzing a young knight from Franconia - Tenor
David apprentice to Hans Sachs - Tenor
Eva Pogner's daughter - Soprano
Magdalene Eva's nurse - Mezzo soprano
A Night Watchman - Bass
Townsfolk from all Guilds, Journeymen, Apprentices, Girls and People
Setting
Nuremberg, mid-16th Century
Act I - St. Katherine's Church, interior
Act II - A street with the Masters' houses
Act III - Sachs's workshop; a meadow on the Pegnitz River