Wagner/ Hawlata/ Ernst - Die Meistersinger Von NurnbergOstensibly, Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nrnberg 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

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The music on this album draws from the earth as it reaches upward and outward

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