Deutsche Oper Berlin
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Opera
Bismarckstraße 35, 10627 Berlin
Richard Wagner

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Description
The world of MEISTERSINGER is a closed system not only in the master singers' pedantic and by-the-book guild ironised by Wagner, but also in Nuremberg's urban society as a whole: the new – embodied by outsider Walther von Stolzing – cannot bring about revolutionary change, but rather is incorporated into the system. For their new production, Jossi Wieler, Anna Viebrock and Sergio Morabito investigate the mechanisms of such a hermetic artistic society. Can art claim artistic liberty in a conservative and dogmatic environment? And what potential does it hold to overthrow the system? ...
About the work
DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG was Richard Wagner’s only light-hearted opera and remains one of his most popular works. This notwithstanding, MEISTERSINGER is also the musical manifesto of a German national art movement and, as such, has accumulated so much baggage over the years that people are apt to lose sight of the opera’s essence – a jolly and coherent comedy with its helter-skelter storyline centring on illusion and reality, love, ageing and the plying of one’s art – and this despite the core theme of a life dominated by music determining not only the cast of characters but also the action of the piece. The members of the master-singers guild have convened to make music in accordance with their strict rulebook. One of the singers, the wealthy Veit Pogner, has granted his daughter Eva the freedom to choose which suitor she will marry – with the proviso that it be a master singer, in other words the winner of a public singing competition. A pity, then, that Eva is in love with Walther von Stolzing, who is talented but devoid of formal training. Nonetheless he takes part in the competition, aided and abetted by master singer Hans Sachs, who has to forego his love for Eva in the process.
About the production
Richard Wagner’s DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG comes to the Deutsche Oper Berlin courtesy of a production trio made up of Jossi Wieler, Anna Viebrock and Sergio Morabito, whose slant on the material focuses on a “music-oriented society”, with Nuremberg’s late mediaeval guild of master singers transposed to the hermetic setting of a college of music. The institution is controlled by powerful professors and attended by their “lads” and “lassies”. The staff includes reformers like Hans Sachs and also pedants, one of whom, Sixtus Beckmesser, is likewise keen to win Eva’s hand in marriage. When new boy Walther von Stolzing, the only non-musical pupil, arrives in this ultra-regulated but at times oddball environment, the entire college is soon shaken to its core, with von Stolzing the instigator of the comic events that unfurl.
About the work
DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG was Richard Wagner’s only light-hearted opera and remains one of his most popular works. This notwithstanding, MEISTERSINGER is also the musical manifesto of a German national art movement and, as such, has accumulated so much baggage over the years that people are apt to lose sight of the opera’s essence – a jolly and coherent comedy with its helter-skelter storyline centring on illusion and reality, love, ageing and the plying of one’s art – and this despite the core theme of a life dominated by music determining not only the cast of characters but also the action of the piece. The members of the master-singers guild have convened to make music in accordance with their strict rulebook. One of the singers, the wealthy Veit Pogner, has granted his daughter Eva the freedom to choose which suitor she will marry – with the proviso that it be a master singer, in other words the winner of a public singing competition. A pity, then, that Eva is in love with Walther von Stolzing, who is talented but devoid of formal training. Nonetheless he takes part in the competition, aided and abetted by master singer Hans Sachs, who has to forego his love for Eva in the process.
About the production
Richard Wagner’s DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG comes to the Deutsche Oper Berlin courtesy of a production trio made up of Jossi Wieler, Anna Viebrock and Sergio Morabito, whose slant on the material focuses on a “music-oriented society”, with Nuremberg’s late mediaeval guild of master singers transposed to the hermetic setting of a college of music. The institution is controlled by powerful professors and attended by their “lads” and “lassies”. The staff includes reformers like Hans Sachs and also pedants, one of whom, Sixtus Beckmesser, is likewise keen to win Eva’s hand in marriage. When new boy Walther von Stolzing, the only non-musical pupil, arrives in this ultra-regulated but at times oddball environment, the entire college is soon shaken to its core, with von Stolzing the instigator of the comic events that unfurl.
Cast
Ulf Schirmer
Conductor
Jossi Wieler
Director
Anna Viebrock
Director
Sergio Morabito
Director
Torsten Köpf
Co-stage designer
Charlotte Pistorius
Co-costume designer
Olaf Freese
Light design
Jeremy Bines
Chorus Director
Thomas Johannes Mayer
Hans Sachs
Albert Pesendorfer
Veit Pogner
Gideon Poppe
Kunz Vogelsang
Simon Pauly
Konrad Nachtigall
Philipp Jekal
Sixtus Beckmesser
Joel Allison
Fritz Kothner
Jörg Schörner
Balthasar Zorn
Clemens Bieber
Ulrich Eißlinger
Burkhard Ulrich
Augustin Moser
Michael Bachtadze
Hermann Ortel
Tobias Kehrer
Hans Schwarz
Jared Werlein
Hans Foltz
Magnus Vigilius
Walther von Stolzing
Chance Jonas-O'Toole
David
Elena Tsallagova
Eva
Annika Schlicht
Magdalena
Tobias Kehrer
A guard
Agata Kornaga
Apprentices
Alicia Grünwald
Apprentices
Yingsi He
Apprentices
Yehui Jeong
Apprentices
Dora Jana Klarić
Apprentices
Yutao Gu
Apprentices
Michael Dimovski
Apprentices
Leon Juurlink
Apprentices
Thoma Jaron-Wutz
Apprentices
Kyoungloul Kim
Apprentices
Zachary McCulloch
Apprentices
Simon Grindberg
Apprentices
Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Chorus
Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Orchestra
Dates
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Bismarckstraße 35, 10627 Berlin
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