Die Meistersinger Is the Met's May 14, 2022, Saturday Matinee Broadcast

Summary: Die Meistersinger is the Met's May 14, 2022, Saturday matinee broadcast, airing as 20th of the 2021-2022 season's 24 Saturday matinee opera broadcasts.

The 2021-2022 Met Opera season's seventh revival of Otto Schenk's staging of Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg features performances, reprised from the 2014-2015 season's sixth revival, by Michael Volle as Hans Sachs, Paul Appleby as David, Johannes Martin Kränzle as Beckmesser and Martin Gantner as Kothner; sets and costumes designed, respectively, by Günther Schneider-Siemssen and Rolf Langenfass; lighting by Gil Wechsler; choreography by Carmen de Lavallade: The Metropolitan Opera @MetOpera, via Facebook March 28, 2020

Wagner's Die Meistersinger is the Met's May 14, 2022, Saturday matinee broadcast, scheduled as the 20th of 24 Saturday matinee opera broadcasts in the 2021-2022 season.

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ("The Master-Singer of Nuremburg") by German Romantic era composer-librettist Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813-Feb. 13, 1883) received six performances, with two in October and four in November, in the 2021-2022 season. The first through sixth performances were offered Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021, at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time; Saturday, Oct. 30, at 1:00 p.m.; Thursday, Nov. 4, at 6:00 p.m.; Sunday, Nov. 7, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time; Thursday, Nov. 11, at 6:00 p.m.; and Sunday, Nov. 14, at 1:00 p.m. The Saturday, Oct. 30, matinee airs as the May 14 Saturday matinee opera broadcast.

The Schenk-staged Meistersinger's seventh revival returns in spring 2022 as the 2021-2022 Saturday Matinee Broadcast Season's May 14 airing, which begins at 2:00 p.m. EDT. The May 14 Saturday matinee broadcasts the seventh revival's Saturday, Oct. 30 matinee.

The 2021-2022 season's presentation represents the seventh revival of the new Met Opera production that Otto Schenk debuted Thursday, Jan. 14, 1993, in the 1992-1993 season. The Austrian opera and theater director had made his Met Opera debut Friday, Oct. 4, 1968, in the opera company's 490th performance of Tosca by Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini (Dec. 22, 1858-Nov. 29, 1924).

Sir Antonio Pappano (born Dec. 30, 1959) conducts all of the seventh revival's performances. The English-Italian conductor and pianist had made his Met Opera debut Thursday, March 13, 1997, in the opera company's 104th performance of Eugene Onegin by Russian late Romantic era composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (May 7, 1840-Nov. 6, 1893).

Michael Volle (born 1960) makes his first reprisal of historical master-singing cobbler Hans Sachs in all of the seventh revival's performances. He had added the role to his Met Opera portfolio in the 2014-2015 season's sixth revival. The German operatic baritone had made his Met Opera debut Thursday, April 3, 2014, as Mandryka in the opera house’s 53rd performance of Arabella by German late Romantic and early modern composer Richard Strauss (June 11, 1864-Sept. 8, 1949).

Lise Davidsen (born Feb. 8, 1987) sings the seventh revival's Eva Pogner, who inspires knightly Walther von Stolzing to win Nuremberg's meistersinger contest. The Norwegian lyric dramatic soprano had made her Met Opera debut Friday, Nov. 29, 2019, as Lisa in the opera company's 72nd performance of Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades.

Klaus Florian Vogt (born April 12, 1970) sings the seventh revival's Walther von Stolzing, who fulfills Veit Pogner's requirement that his daughter Eva's husband must be a meistersinger. The German operatic tenor had made his Met Opera debut Wednesday, May 3, 2006, in the title role in the opera company's 617th performance of Wagner's Lohengrin.

Claudia Mahnke (born 1967) sings the seventh revival's Magdalene, Eva's companion. The German operatic mezzo-soprano's appearance in the seventh revival's first performance, Tuesday, Oct. 26, marks her Met Opera debut.

Paul Appleby (born June 29, 1983) makes his first reprisal of David, apprenticed to Hans Sachs, in all of the seventh revival's performances. He had added the role to his Met Opera portfolio in the 2014-2015 season's sixth revival. The American operatic tenor had made his Met Opera debut Saturday, May 7, 2011, as Brighella in the opera company’s 89th performance of Ariadne auf Naxos by German late Romantic and early modern composer Richard Strauss (June 11, 1864-Sept. 8, 1949).

Johannes Martin Kränzle (born 1962) sings the seventh revival's master-singing town clerk, Beckmesser. As the seventh revival's Beckmesser, he reprises the role, in the sixth revival, in which he had made his Met Opera debut. The German operatic baritone had made his Met Opera debut Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014, in the opera's 410th performance at Met Opera.

Martin Gantner (born May 15, 1965) sings the seventh revival's master-singing baker, Kothner, as his first reprisal of the sixth revival role in which he had made his Met Opera debut. The German operatic baritone had made his Met Opera debut Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014, as Kothner, alongside Johannes Martin Kränzle's Beckmesser.

Georg Zeppenfeld (born 1970) sings the seventh revival's Veit Pogner, Eva's master-singing goldsmith father. The German operatic bass had made his Met Opera debut Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009, as Sarastro in the opera company's 393rd performance of Die Zauberflöte by Classical Era composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Jan. 27, 1756-Dec. 5, 1791).

Alexander Tsymbalyuk (born 1976) sings the seventh revival's Night Watchman. The Ukrainian bass had made his Met Opera debut Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010, as Ferrando in the opera company's 615th performance of Il Trovatore by Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi (Oct. 10, 1813-Jan. 27, 1901).

The 2021-2022 season's first performance of the seventh revival numbered as Met Opera's 417th performance of the opera. The Metropolitan Opera House's United States premiere of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg had taken place Monday, Jan. 4, 1886.

The takeaways for Die Meistersinger as Met Opera's May 14 Saturday matinee opera broadcast are that the 2021-2022 season offered six autumn performances of the Wagnerian opera, with the Oct. 30 matinee airing as the May 14 Saturday matinee opera broadcast; that the production, debuted by Otto Schenk in the 1992-1993 season, experienced its seventh revival in the 2021-2022 season; and that Michael Volle, Paul Appleby, Johannes Martin Kränzle and Martin Gantner reprise their respective roles as Hans Sachs, David, Beckmesser and Kothner from the 2014-2015 season's sixth reprisal.

Paul Appleby makes his first reprisal of Die Meistersinger's David in the 2021-2022 Met Opera season's seventh revival of Otto Schenk's 1992-1993 production; Paul Appleby's wife, Jacqueline Schmidt Appleby, and first daughter, Theodora (Teddy), visited the tenor during November's rehearsals for his role debut as David in the 2014-2015 season's six December performances of the Schenk-staged Meistersinger's sixth revival: Paul Appleby @paulapplebytenor, via Facebook March 28, 2020

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The 2021-2022 Met Opera season's seventh revival of Otto Schenk's staging of Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg features performances, reprised from the 2014-2015 season's sixth revival, by Michael Volle as Hans Sachs, Paul Appleby as David, Johannes Martin Kränzle as Beckmesser and Martin Gantner as Kothner; sets and costumes designed, respectively, by Günther Schneider-Siemssen and Rolf Langenfass; lighting by Gil Wechsler; choreography by Carmen de Lavallade: The Metropolitan Opera @MetOpera, via Facebook March 28, 2020, @ https://www.facebook.com/MetOpera/posts/10163422400015533

Paul Appleby makes his first reprisal of Die Meistersinger's David in the 2021-2022 Met Opera season's seventh revival of Otto Schenk's 1992-1993 production; Paul Appleby's wife, Jacqueline Schmidt Appleby, and first daughter, Theodora (Teddy), visited the tenor during November's rehearsals for his role debut as David in the 2014-2015 season's six December performances of the Schenk-staged Meistersinger's sixth revival: Paul Appleby @paulapplebytenor, via Facebook March 28, 2020, @ https://www.facebook.com/paulapplebytenor/posts/2824157407666311

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