This week, our peek into the Mike Richter collection reveals a long listen for those lengthy midwinter nights: Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.

From “Opera from Bayreuth”

Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Bayreuth Festival 1960
Performance of July 23, 1960

Hans Sachs – Josef Greindl
Veit Pogner – Theo Adam
Sixtus Beckmesser – Karl Schmitt-Walter
Fritz Kothner – Ludwig Weber
Kunz Vogelgesang – Wilfried Krug
Konrad Nachtigall – Egmont Koch
Balthasar Zorn – Heinz Zimmermann
Ulrich Eißlinger – Harald Neukirch
Augustin Moser – Hermann Winkler
Hermann Ortel – Fritjof Sentpaul
Hans Schwarz – Hans-Günter Nöcker
Hans Foltz – Eugen Fuchs
Eva – Elisabeth Grümmer
Walther von Stolzing – Wolfgang Windgassen
David, Sachsens Lehrbube – Gerhard Stolze
Magdalena – Elisabeth Schärtel
Nachtwächter – Donald Bell

Chorus and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival
Chorus Master – Wilhelm Pitz
Conductor – Hans Knappertsbusch

Production and staging – Wieland Wagner