Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

In the organizer's words:

Music is the central purpose of life for almost all the characters in the play. Serving and cultivating it is the purpose of the "Meistersinger guild," which has set itself a strict and demanding set of rules for this purpose. Service to music thus also determines the lives of David and Magdalena, the apprentice boys and girls, and especially that of Eva, the daughter of the rich Veit Pogner. He gives her the choice of a groom - on one condition: "it must be a master", the winner of a public singing competition ... Conductor: Ulf Schirmer; Production: Jossi Wieler, Anna Viebrock, Sergio Morabito; With Johan Reuter, Albert Pesendorfer, Philipp Jekal, Clay Hilley, Ya-Chung Huang, Elena Tsallagova, Annika Schlicht and others.
Almost 30 years ago, the Deutsche Oper Berlin last saw a premiere of Richard Wagner's DIE MEISTERSINGER. Now the monumental opera returns to the Wagner House on Bismarckstrasse in a new production by Jossi Wieler, Anna Viebrock and Sergio Morabito. At short notice, Markus Stenz takes over the musical direction from the ill Sir Donald Runnicles.

More popular than almost any other stage work by Richard Wagner, DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG is loved and hated at the same time. The play combines a light-hearted comedy plot with a summer-night drunken play about the delusion and reality of love, but at the same time it claims to be a founding manifesto of German national art and is thus historically charged in its reception like hardly any other work by Richard Wagner. At the same time, however, and in the first place, DIE MEISTERSINGER is a piece about music and music-making. Music is the central purpose of life for almost all the characters in the play. To serve and cultivate it is the purpose of the "Meistersinger guild", which has given itself a strict and demanding set of rules for this purpose. Service to music thus also determines the lives of David and Magdalena, the apprentice boys and girls, and especially that of Eva, the daughter of the rich Veit Pogner. He gives her the choice of a bridegroom - on one condition: "it must be a master", the winner of a public singing competition. And so, out of love for Eva, Walther von Stolzing, the only "non-musician" of the stage crew, although highly gifted musically, agrees to this very thing. He finds help from Hans Sachs, of all people. He is "master" and at the same time reformer of that art world - and also in love with Eva. Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito have been staging musical theater together since 1994. Numerous awards have honored their work: Their production of ARIADNE AUF NAXOS at the 2001 Salzburg Festival was named Performance of the Year. In 2002 and 2012, the duo was voted "Director's Team of the Year," in 2006 they received the German Theater Award DER FAUST in the category "Best Opera Direction" for DOKTOR FAUST and in 2012 for DIE GLÜCKLICHE HAND / SCHICKSAL, and their production BERENIKE, KÖNIGIN VON ARMENIEN by Nicolo Jommelli was celebrated as "Excavation of the Year" in 2014. The productions were created in the often surprising, subversive, and surreal-realistic spaces of designer Anna Viebrock, who has shared a congenial artistic partnership with Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito since 1994. At Deutsche Oper Berlin, her successful Stuttgart production of Bellini's LA SONNAMBULA premiered in 2019 as a new production. This content has been machine translated.