Die Meistersinger: Performance History

Cast:

• Eva : Mathilde Mallinger
• Magdalena : Sophie Dietz
• Walther von Stolzing : Franz Nachbaur (also created role of Froh in Das Rheingold)
• David : Max Schlosser (also created roles of a Messenger in Die Feen and Mime in Das Rheingold)
• Hans Sachs : Franz Betz
• Veit Pogner : Kaspar Bausewein (also created roles of Harald in Die Feen, Fafner in Das Rheingold, and Hunding in Die Walküre)
• Sixtus Beckmesser : Gustav Hölzel
• Fritz Kothner : Karl Fischer (also created role of Alberich in Das Rheingold)
• Kunz Vogelgesang : Karl Samuel Heinrich (also created roles of Melot in Tristan und Isolde and Donner in Das Rheingold)
• Konrad Nachtigall : Eduard Sigl
• Hermann Ortel : Franz Thoms
• Balthasar Zorn : Bartholomäus Weixlstorfer
• Augustin Moser : Michael Pöppl
• Ulrich Eisslinger : Eduard Hoppe
• Hans Foltz : Ludwig Hayn
• Hans Schwarz : Leopold Grasser
• Ein Nachtwächter : Ferdinand Lang

First performance in:

• Austria: 27 Feb 1870, Vienna
• Czech Republic: 26 Apr 1871, Prague
• Latvia: 4 Jan 1872, Riga
• Denmark: 23 Mar 1872, Copenhagen
• Netherlands: 12 Mar 1879, Rotterdam
• United Kingdom: 30 May 1882, London (Drury Lane)
• Hungary: 8 Sep 1883, Budapest
• Switzerland: 20 Feb 1885, Basle
• Belgium: 7 Mar 1885, Brussels
• United States: 4 Jan 1886, New York (Met)
• Sweden: 2 Apr 1887, Stockholm
• Italy: 26 Dec 1889, Milan
• Spain: 3 Mar 1894, Barcelona
• Poland: 3 Mar 1896, Poznan
• France: 30 Dec 1896, Lyon
• Russia: 15 Mar 1898, St. Petersburg
• Argentina: 6 Aug 1898, Buenos Aires
• Portugal: Jan 1902, Lisbon
• Brazil: 3 Aug 1905, Rio de Janeiro
• South Africa: 1913, Johannesburg
• Finland: 17 Nov 1921, Helsinki
• Monaco: Feb 1928, Monte Carlo
• Croatia: 15 Jun 1929, Zagreb
• Australia: Mar 1933, Melbourne
• Romania: Dec 1934, Bucharest

• Bayreuth Festspielhaus: 1888
• Metropolitan Opera: 4 Jan 1886 (272 performances in 61 seasons through 1975-76)
• San Francisco Opera: 28 Sep 1931 (40 performances in 11 seasons through 1997-98, most recently 17 Nov 1993)