Ostensibly, Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg tells a humorous tale about artistically inclined craftsmen. Goldsmith Veit Pogner promises his daughter Eva's hand in marriage to the winner of a song contest, to which three men are potentially eligible. But upon closer inspection, what is at first glance a harmless farce in a middle-class setting emerges as a profound social analysis.

Wagner uses his protagonists to show how a community deals with tradition and those who break with it and just how much innovation and deviation from the norm it can tolerate – as well as to examine what value society places, and should place, on art.

Cast:
- Hans Sachs: Franz Hawlata
- Veit Pogner: Artur Korn
- Kunz Vogelgesang: Charles Reid
- Konrad Nachtigall: Rainer Zaun
- Sixtus Beckmesser: Michael Volle
- Fritz Kothner: Markus Eiche
- Balthasar Zorn: Edward Randall
- Ulrich Eisslinger: Hans-Jürgen Lazar
- Augustin Moser : Stefan Heibach
- Hermann Ortel: Martin Snell
- Hans Schwarz: Andreas Macco
- Hans Foltzd: Iógenes Randes
- Walther Von Stolzing: Klaus Florian Vogt
- David: Norbert Ernst
- Eva: Michaela Kaune
- Magdalene: Carola Guber
- Ein Nachtwächter: Friedemann Röhlig

Stage director: Katharina Wagner

Recorded live at Bayreuth Festspiele, 2008.

Extra features:
- Cast Gallery
- The Making of ‘‘Die Meistersinger’’

"A 'Meistersinger' that's on an entirely new Wagnerian scale... it is full of smart ideas and moments of effective theater." - The Washington Post

Running time: 4 hours 45 mins
Region code: All regions
Picture format: 16:9 Anamorphic
Sound format: 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS
Menu language: EN
Subtitles: EN/FR/DE/ES