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OVERTURE OPERA GUIDES in association with We are delighted to have the opportunity to work with Overture Publishing on this series of opera guides and to build on the work English National Opera did over twenty years ago on the Calder Opera Guide Series. As well as reworking and updat- ing existing titles, Overture and ENO have commissioned new titles for the series and all of the guides will be published to coincide with repertoire being staged by the company at the London Coliseum. We hope that these guides will prove an invaluable resource now and for years to come, and that by delving deeper into the history of an opera, the poetry of the libretto and the nuances of the score, readers’ understanding and appreciation of the opera and the art form in general will be enhanced. John Berry, CBE Artistic Director, ENO The publisher John Calder began the Opera Guides series under the editorship of the late Nicholas John in associa- tion with English National Opera in 1980. It ran until 1994 and eventually included forty-eight titles, covering fifty-eight operas. The books in the series were intended to be companions to the works that make up the core of the operatic repertory. They contained articles, illustrations, musical examples and a complete libretto and singing translation of each opera in the series, as well as bibliographies and discographies. The aim of the present relaunched series is to make available again the guides already published in a redesigned format with new illustrations, some newly commissioned articles, updated reference sections and a literal translation of the libretto that will enable the reader to get closer to the meaning of the origi- nal. New guides of operas not already covered will be published alongside the redesigned ones from the old series. Gary Kahn Series Editor Sponsors of the Overture Opera Guides for the 2014/15 Season at ENO Eric Adler Frank and Lorna Dunphy Richard Everall Ali Khan Andrew Medlicott Ralph Wells Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Richard Wagner Overture Opera Guides Series Editor Gary Kahn Editorial Consultant Philip Reed OP OVERTURE OVERTURE OPERA GUIDES in association with Overture Publishing an imprint of ALMA CLASSICS London House 243-253 Lower Mortlake Road Richmond Surrey TW9 2LL United Kingdom Article by Arnold Whittall, first published by John Calder (Publishers) Ltd, 1981, revised 2015 © the author, 2015 Articles by John Deathridge, Tim Blanning, Hans Rudolf Vaget and Áine Sheil first published in this volume © the authors, 2015 This Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Opera Guide first published by Overture Publishing, an imprint of Alma Classics Ltd, 2015 © Alma Classics Ltd, 2015 All rights reserved Translation of libretto © Peter Branscombe Printed in United Kingdom by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon CR0 4YY ISBN: 978-1-84749-558-7 All the pictures in this volume are reprinted with permission or presumed to be in the public domain. Every effort has been made to ascertain and acknowl- edge their copyright status, but should there have been any unwitting oversight on our part, we would be happy to rectify the error in subsequent printings. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), with- out the prior written permission of the publisher. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not be resold, lent, hired out or otherwise circulated without the express prior consent of the publisher. Contents List of Illustrations 8 Snapshots of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg 9 John Deathridge The Music: A Commentary 26 Arnold Whittall Hans Sachs and Friedrich Schiller 40 Tim Blanning The Beckmesser Problem 47 Hans Rudolf Vaget The Performance Legacy of Die Meistersinger 55 Áine Sheil Thematic Guide 73 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Libretto 79 Act One 83 Act Two 159 Act Three 241 Select Discography 324 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg on DVD 328 Select Bibliography 331 Wagner Websites 334 Note on the Contributors 335 Acknowledgements 336 List of Illustrations 1. Richard Wagner in 1868 2. Nuremberg at the end of the fifteenth century 3. The Hof- und Nationaltheater in Munich in the 1860s 4. The Meistersingerschrein from Nuremberg’s St Catherine’s Church (Gemälde- und Skulpturensammlung, Nuremberg) 5. National Choral Festival in Nuremberg, 1861 (Germanisches Museum, Nuremberg) 6. Playbill for the 1868 Munich premiere 7. Wagner in the royal box at the Munich premiere 8. Set design by Max and Gotthold Brückner for the first Bayreuth production 9. Karl Scheidemantel 10. Fritz Friedrichs 11. Cast for Act Three, Scene One at Glyndebourne 12. Liebig card of Eva, Sachs and Walther 13. Winifred Wagner with Hitler at the Stadttheater, Nuremberg 14. Wilhelm Rode’s production at the Deutsches Opernhaus, Berlin 15. Playbill for the 1935 Berlin production 16. Rudolf Hartmann’s production at the Bayreuth Festival, 1951 (Fritz Ramme) 17. Wieland Wagner’s production at the Bayreuth Festival, 1956 (Siegfried Lauterwasser/ Festspielleitung Bayreuth) 18. Wieland Wagner’s production at the Bayreuth Festival, 1963 (Wilhelm Rauh/Fest- spielleitung Bayreuth) 19. Wolfgang Wagner’s production at the Bayreuth Festival, 1968 (Siegfried Lauterwasser/ Festspielleitung Bayreuth) 20. Norman Bailey and Derek Hammond-Stroud (Reg Wilson) 21. Hans Neuenfels’s production at Oper Stuttgart (Mara Eggert) 22. Graham Vick’s production at the Royal Opera House (Clive Barda) 23. Kurt Horres’s production at La Monnaie (Johan Jacobs) 24. Katharina Wagner’s production at the Bayreuth Festival (Bayreuther Festspiele GmbH/Jochen Quast) 25. Raymond Very and Bryn Terfel at WNO (Catherine Ashmore) 26. Andreas Homiki’s production at the Komische Oper Berlin (Monika Rittershaus) 27. Johannes Martin Kränzle and Gerald Finley (Alastair Muir) 28. David Alden’s production at the Netherlands Opera (Monika Rittershaus) 29. Stefan Herheim’s production at the Salzburg Festival (Salzburger Festspiele/Forster) Thematic Guide Themes from the opera have been identified by the numbers in square brackets in the article on the music, pp. 26–39. These are also printed at corresponding points in the libretto, so that the words can be related to the musical themes. [1a] x [1b] x [1c] x [2] x [3] [4] 73 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Music Drama in Three Acts by Richard Wagner Libretto by the composer English translation by Peter Branscombe Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg was first performed at the Königliches Hof- und Nationaltheater, Munich, on 21st June 1868. It was first performed in Britain at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, on 30th May 1882.The first performance in the United States was at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, on 4th January1886. The German libretto has been laid out in accordance with the one printed in volume 7 of Wagner’s Gesammelte Schriften und Dichtungen (Collected Writings) prepared under the composer’s supervision and first printed in Leipzig. The English translation follows the same layout. THE CHARACTERS Hans Sachs, shoemaker bass Veit Pogner, goldsmith bass Kurz Vogelgesang, furrier tenor Konrad Nachtigall, tinsmith bass Sixtus Beckmesser, town clerk bass Fritz Kothner, baker bass Mastersingers Balthasar Zorn, pewterer tenor Ulrich Eisslinger, grocer tenor Augustin Moser, tailor tenor Hermann Ortel, soap-boiler bass Hans Schwartz, stocking-weaver bass Hans Foltz, coppersmith } bass Walther von Stolzing, a young knight from Franconia tenor David, Sachs’s apprentice tenor Eva, Pogner’s daughter soprano Magdalene, Eva’s nurse soprano A Nightwatchman bass Burghers and wives of all the guilds, journeymen. apprentices, girls, people Nuremberg around the middle of the sixteenth century Vorspiel [1a–6] ERSTER AUFZUG Erste Szene Die Bühne stellt das Innere der Katharinenkirche in schrägem Durchschnitt dar; von dem Hauptschiff, welches links ab, dem Hintergrunde zu, sich ausdehnend anzunehmen ist, sind nur noch die letzten Reihen der Kirchenstühlbänke sichtbar: den Vordergrund nimmt der freie Raum vor dem Chor ein; dieser wird später durch einen schwarzen Vorhang gegen das Schiff zu gänzlich geschlossen. In der letzten Reihe der Kirchenstühle sitzen Eva und Magdalene; Walther von Stolzing steht, in einiger Entfernung, zur Seite an eine Säule gelehnt, die Blicke auf Eva heftend, die sich mit stummem Gebärdenspiel wiederholt zu ihm umkehrt. CHORAL DER GEMEINDE Da zu dir der Heiland kam, [8] (Walther drückt durch Gebärde eine schmachtende Frage an Eva aus.) willig seine Taufe nahm, (Evas Blick und Gebärde sucht zu antworten; doch beschämt schlägt sie das Auge wieder nieder) weihte sich dem Opfertod, (Walther zärtlich, dann dringender) gab er uns des Heils Gebot: (Eva Walthern schüchtern abweisend, aber schnell wieder seelenvoll zu ihm aufblickend) das wir durch sein’ Tauf’ uns weihn, (Walther, entzückt, höchste Beteuerungen, Hoffnung) seines Opfers wert zu sein. (Eva, selig lächelnd, dann beschämt die Augen senkend) 82 Prelude [1a–6] ACT ONE Scene One The scene represents the interior of the church of St Catherine in diagonal section; the nave is supposed to extend towards the back of the stage, to the left; only the last few rows of pews are visible. In front is the open space of the choir, which is later completely shut off from the nave by a black curtain.
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    THESIS ON i THE PRESEN TATI ON OP THE ARTISILHEBQ IN * 19th-CENTURY GERMAN DRAMA PRESENTED PGR THE DEGREE OP Ffc.D*, UNIVERSITY OP GLASGOW OCTOBER, 1951 b y Gilliam Rodger# ProQuest Number: 13838411 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a com plete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. uest ProQuest 13838411 Published by ProQuest LLC(2019). Copyright of the Dissertation is held by the Author. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States C ode Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. ProQuest LLC. 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106- 1346 PREFACE. This thesis is based on a study of some two hundred German dramas o f the 19th century, A l i s t of these dramas i s found on p. 176 in the form o f an appendix to the te x t. There is further appended on p.213 a bibliography of all d critical works used during the study - works treating individual dramatists and dramas, the 19th-century background and appropriate aspects of general aesthetics, GoR. London, June 1951 LIST OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER Is Dramatic treatment of the artist in Germany in the 19th century. * .p.4. CHAPTER I I : The relations between the artist-hero and society: (A) : The artist^ reception in the world of normal m en..