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In "a Wagner staging to treasure" (The Sunday Telegraph), the 2011 Glyndebourne Festival brings to life the legendary German composer's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Staged by David McVicar, the production features an all-star cast of leads supported by the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Vladimir Jurowski. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg tells the story of the young upstart Walther von Stolzing, who enters the singing competition of Nuremberg's Mastersingers (the city's guild for poets and musicians) in order to win his beloved Eva. Written and composed entirely by Wagner himself, the opera premiered in Munich at the National Theater in 1868, and would prove to occupy a unique place in Wagner's œuvre: it is his only opera with a comedic tone, a happy ending, and a setting in a specific place and time rather than in a mythological world. It was in 2011 that Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg was first presented at the Glyndebourne Festival, featuring a beautiful staging (by David McVicar) that set the story post-Napoleonic Germany of the in early 19th century and recalled centuries of German artwork. A not-to-be-missed landmark production, revived by the same festival in 2016 to great acclaim!

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the genesis of the 2007 production of Richard Wagner's 'Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg' in Bayreuth, directed by Wagner's great-granddaughter, Katharina Wagner. Includes conversations with Katharina Wagner, Christian Thielemann, Sebastian Weigle, Christoph Schlingensief, Franz Hawlata, and others.

Katharina Wagner stages The Mastersingers of Nuremberg in Bayreuth. The young knight Walther von Stolzing (Klaus Florian Vogt) is in love with the young Eva Pogner (Michaela Kaune), who loves him in return, but is promised to the future winner of a singing contest held the next day. Walter tries as quickly as he can to learn the rules of composition, but on the day of the contest he is booed by the jury ... The Mastersingers is an expression of the endless quarrel between the Ancients (Die Meistersinger, who deeply want to keep the present rules of composition) and modern (embodied by the cobbler Hans Sachs and the young Stolzing). The peculiarity of this stage direction is that Katharina Wagner wants to make Sixtus Beckmesser (Michael Volle) friendly, because he is really humiliated through the opera. Unique comic drama ever composed by Wagner, The Mastersingers fits perfectly to the colorful staging imagined by the young Katharina Wagner, great granddaughter of the composer and co-director of the Festival Bayreuth. In 2007, this production opened the 96th edition of the Bayreuth Festival, and was played the following summer of 2008, time of this recording.

Set in picturesque sixteenth century Nurnberg, the plot revolves around a singing contest, organized by the Guild of Mastersingers, and the prize promised by the goldsmith, Weit Pogner--his daughter Eva's hand in marriage.