Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Richard Wagner, Donald McIntyre (Performer), Charles Mackerras, Michael Hampe, Virginia Lumsden
Die Meistersinger von Nürnburg is the only comedy Wagner ever wrote. It is a parable of art told in terms of a simple human love story. Within the context of middle-class town life the opera symbolises the eternal conflict between the need for change, with Walther at its forefront, and the conservative forces of a too strongly held critical tradition, personified in Beckmesser. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg has also been interpreted as Wagner's protest against his critics and the public
VHS Video, English, 1990
Australian Broadcasting Corp., Sydney, 1990