Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg : Oper in drei Aufzügen
Richard Wagner (Composer, Librettist), Götz Friedrich (Stage director), Brian Large (Television director), Wolfgang Brendel (Performer), Victor von Halem (Performer), David Griffith (Performer), Barry McDaniel (Performer), Eike Wilm Schulte (Performer), Lenus Carlson (Performer), Volker Horn (Performer), Peter Maus (Performer), Otto Heuer (Performer), Friedrich Molsberger (Performer), Gösta Winbergh (Performer), Uwe Peper (Performer), Eva Johansson (Performer), Ute Walther (Performer), Peter Edelmann (Performer), Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (Conductor), Peter Sykora (Set designer, Costume designer), Kirsten Dephoff (Costume designer), Deutsche Oper Berlin Orchester (Instrumentalist), Deutsche Oper Berlin Chor (Singer), Deutsche Oper Berlin, Brilliant Media, Videal (Firm), EuroArts Music International GmbH, Sender Freies Berlin, Nihon Hōsō Kyōkai, Arthaus Musik (Firm) (Publisher)
"The Mastersingers of Nuremberg is Richard Wagner's most ceremonious opera. It is considered the most festive opera per se ... The Mastersingers is Wagner's only opera in which all figures represent ordinary people without any supernatural skills or fates ... The underlying thematic principle here as in many of Wagner's other operas is a conflict. Stolzing, the 'free' artist, is in opposition to the mastersingers and their 'traditional' art. The political spirit of the times, the great debate between conservatives and progressionists, is poignantly reflected here ... Quite unique amongst all of the operas of Richard Wagner."--Guide
DVD Video, German, 2004
Arthaus Musik, [Leipzig], 2004