Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96, is a music drama, or opera, in three acts, by Richard Wagner. It is the longest opera commonly performed, taking nearly four and a half hours, not counting two
Max Staegemann as Hans Sachs
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A Meistersinger was a member of a German guild for lyric poetry, composition and unaccompanied art song of the 14th to 16th centuries. The Meistersingers were drawn from middle class males for the mos
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
…time, Nuremberg was a free imperial city and one of the centers of the Renaissance in Northern Europe. The story revolves around the city's guild of Meistersinger (Master Singers), an association of amateur poets and musicians who were primarily master craftsmen of various trades. The master singers had developed…
Hans Sachs, leader of a famous 16th-century Meistersinger school in Nuremberg
1912 illustration of a Meistersinger having errors in their performance chalked up