# Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg discography

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

| Year | Cast (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 |