The Bayreuth Festival's annual new production is one of the most eagerly awaited events of the operatic calendar, and in 2025 Matthias Davids brings his experience as a multi-award-winning director of musical theatre to Wagner's only mature comedy, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. This highly anticipated staging is matched by a superb musical line-up, with Daniele Gatti conducting an international cast including Georg Zeppenfeld as Hans Sachs, Michael Spyres as Walther von Stolzing and the young Swedish soprano Christina Nilsson as Eva. All in all, it promises to be a fresh and revitalizing take on this most inspiring of Wagner's works, which asks fundamental questions about art, inspiration and what it means to be truly creative.
as Hans Sachs
as Veit Pogner
as Kunz Vogelgesang
as Konrad Nachtigal
as Sixtus Beckmesser
as Fritz Kothner
as Balthasar Zorn
as Ulrich Eisslinger
as Augustin Moser
as Hermann Ortel
as Hans Schwarz
as Hans Foltz
as Walther von Stolzing
as David
as Eva
as Magdalene
as Ein Nachtwächter
