Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg discography
Introduction This is a discography of Richard Wagner's opera ''Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'' which received its premiere at the Königliches Hof- und National-Theater in Munich, on June 21, 1868.
List YearCast(Sachs, Walther, Beckmesser, David, Eva, Magdalena, Pogner) Orchestra and conductor Label 1928  Friedrich Schorr, Robert Hutt, Leo Schützendorf, Karl Jöken, Elfriede Marherr-Wagner, Lydia Kinderman  Berliner Staatsoper under Leo Blech  Pearl GEMM CD 9340 / Symposium 1232-3 1936  Hans Herrmann Nissen, Charles Kullman, Hermann Wiedemann, Richard Sallaba, Lotte Lehmann, Kerstin Thorborg  Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus under Arturo Toscanini, Salzburg Festival  Eklipse EKR 54 1936  Friedrich Schorr, René Maison, Eduard Habich, Hans Clemens, Elisabeth Rethberg, Karin Branzell  Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus under Artur Bodanzky  Music and Arts 652 / Guild Immortal Performances GHCD 2244-7 1937  Hans Herrmann Nissen, Henk Noort, Hermann Wiedemann, Richard Sallaba, Maria Reining, Kerstin Thorborg  Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus under Arturo Toscanini, Salzburg Festival  Eklipse EKR 54 / Grammofono 2000 AB 78017-25 / Andante AND 3040 1943  Jaro Prohaska, Max Lorenz, Eugen Fuchs, Erich Zimmermann, Maria Müller, Camilla Kallab, Josef Greindl  Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and Chorus under Wilhelm Furtwängler, Bayreuth Festival  EMI 1943  Paul Schöffler, Ludwig Suthaus, Erich Kunz, Erich Witte, Hilde Scheppan, Camilla Kallab  Bayreuth Festival Orchestra under Hermann Abendroth  Preiser 90 174 1944  Paul Schöffler, August Seider, Erich Kunz, Peter Klein, Irmgard Seefried, Else Schürhoff, Herbert Alsen  Vienna Philharmonic under Karl Böhm  Arkadia 78061, Preiser 90234, Cantus CACD 5.00143/44 1949  Hans Hotter, Günther Treptow, Benno Kusche, Paul Kuën, Anneliese Kupper, Ruth Michaelis, Max Proebstl  Bayerische Staatsoper, München under Eugen Jochum  Myto / Walhall 1950/51  Paul Schöffler, Günther Treptow, Karl Dönch, Anton Dermota, Hilde Gueden, Else Schürhoff, Otto Edelmann  Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus under Hans Knappertsbusch  Decca 1951  Otto Edelmann, Hans Hopf, Erich Kunz, Gerhard Unger, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Ira Malaniuk, Gottlob Frick  Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and Chorus under Herbert von Karajan  EMI 1951  Ferdinand Frantz, Bernd Aldenhoff, Heinrich Pflanzl, Gerhard Unger, Tiana Lemnitz, Emilie Walter-Sacks, Kurt Böhme  Dresden State Opera Chorus and Saxon State Orchestra under Rudolf Kempe  Urania, Vox 1955  Otto Edelmann, Hans Hopf, Erich Kunz, Gerhard Unger, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Ira Malaniuk, Ludwig Weber  ''Orchestra Sinfonica e coro della RAI di Milano'', under Hans Rosbaud  Walhall Eternity Series 1956  Ferdinand Frantz, Rudolf Schock, Benno Kusche, Gerhard Unger, Elisabeth Grümmer, Marga Höffgen, Gottlob Frick  Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Rudolf Kempe  Electrola, HMV, Angel, EMI 1956  Hans Hotter, Wolfgang Windgassen, Karl Schmitt-Walter, Gerhard Stolze, Gre Brouwenstijn, Georgine von Milinkovic, Josef Greindl (and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Fritz Kothner)  Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and Chorus under André Cluytens  1957  Gustav Neidlinger, Walter Geisler, Karl Schmitt-Walter, Gerhard Stolze, Elisabeth Grümmer, Georgine von Milinkovic, Josef Greindl  Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and Chorus under André Cluytens  Melodram / Walhall 1960  Josef Greindl, Wolfgang Windgassen, Karl Schmitt-Walter, Gerhard Stolze, Elisabeth Grümmer, Elisabeth Schärtel, Theo Adam  Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and Chorus under Hans Knappertsbusch  Melodram, Myto, Orfeo 1962  Giuseppe Taddei, Luigi Infantino, Renato Capecchi, Carlo Franzini, Bruna Rizzoli, Fernanda Cadoni, Boris Christoff  Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Torino della RAI under Lovro von Matačić  Datum DAT 12310 (in Italian (''I Maestri Cantori di Norimberga''), with some cuts) 1964  Otto Wiener, Jess Thomas, Benno Kusche, Friedrich Lenz, Claire Watson, Lillian Bennigsen, Hans Hotter  Orchester and the Chorus of the Staatsoper Bavaria etc. under Joseph Keilberth  BMG 1967  Thomas Stewart, Sándor Kónya, Thomas Hemsley, Gerhard Unger, Gundula Janowitz, Brigitte Fassbaender, Franz Crass  Chorus and Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio under Rafael Kubelík  Arts Music / Calig / Myto 1968  Theo Adam, Waldemar Kmentt, Thomas Hemsley, Hermin Esser, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Janis Martin, Kurt Moll, Karl Ridderbusch  Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and Chorus under Karl Böhm  Orfeo 1968  Norman Bailey, Alberto Remedios, Derek Hammond-Stroud, Gregory Dempsey, Margaret Curphey, Ann Robson  Sadler's Wells Orchestra & Chorus under Reginald Goodall  Chandos. (Sung in English) 1970  Theo Adam, René Kollo, Geraint Evans, Peter Schreier, Helen Donath, Ruth Hesse, Karl Ridderbusch  Staatskapelle Dresden and Staatsoper Chorus under Herbert von Karajan  EMI 1974  Karl Ridderbusch, Jean Cox, Klaus Hirte, Frieder Stricker, Hannelore Bode, Anna Reynolds, Hans Sotin  Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and Chorus under Silvio Varviso  Phillips 1975  Norman Bailey, René Kollo, Bernd Weikl, Adolf Dallapozza, Hannelore Bode, Julia Hamari, Kurt Moll  Vienna Philharmonic under Sir Georg Solti  Decca/London. 1976  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Plácido Domingo, Roland Hermann, Horst Laubenthal, Catarina Ligendza, Christa Ludwig, Peter Lagger  Chorus and Orchestra of the German Opera, Berlin, under Eugen Jochum  Deutsche Grammophon 1993  Bernd Weikl, Ben Heppner, Siegfried Lorenz, Deon van der Walt, Cheryl Studer, Cornelia Kallisch, Kurt Moll  Munich Staatsorchester under Wolfgang Sawallisch  EMI 1997  John Tomlinson, Gösta Winbergh, Thomas Allen, Herbert Lippert, Nancy Gustafson, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Gwynne Howell  Orchestra of the Royal Opera House under Bernard Haitink  Opus Arte 1997  José van Dam, Ben Heppner, Alan Opie, Herbert Lippert, Karita Mattila, Iris Vermillon Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Sir Georg Solti  Decca/London 1999  Robert Holl, Peter Seiffert, Andreas Schmidt, Endrik Wottrich, Emily Magee, Birgitta Svendén  Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and Chorus, Daniel Barenboim directing Teldec 2001  James Morris, Ben Heppner, Sir Thomas Allen, Matthew Polenzani, Karita Mattila, Jill Grove, René Pape  Metropolitan Opera under James Levine  Deutsche Grammophon 2008  Franz Hawlata, Klaus Florian Vogt, Michael Volle, Norbert Ernst, Michaela Kaune, Carola Guber, Artur Korn  Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Chorus; Sebastian Weigle,Staged and directed by Katharina Wagner 2-DVD set: Opus Arte,ASIN: B0046HCOOS
References * Operadis discography (89 items), accessed 3 September 2010