Die Meistersinger Composer Richard Wagner Librettist Richard Wagner Company San Francisco Opera Association Touring Location Los Angeles, CA Venue Shrine Auditorium Season 1938 Language German Creative/Crew Conductor Fritz Reiner Stage Director(s) Herbert Graf Chorus Master William Tyroler Cast Hans Sachs, Cobbler Friedrich Schorr Pogner, Goldsmith Carlton Gauld Vogelgesang, Furrier Martin Bose Nachtigall, buckle-maker Louis D'Angelo Beckmesser, Town Clerk Arnold Gabor Kothner, Baker Julius Huehn Zorn, Pewterer Leslie George Eisslinger, Grocer Ludovico Oliviero Moser, Tailor Carl Hauge Ortel, soap-boiler George Cehanovsky Schwarz, Stocking-weaver Norman Cordon Foltz, Coppersmith John Howell Sir Walther von Stolzing, Franconian Knight Charles Kullman David, apprentice to Hans Sachs Karl Laufkötter Eva, Pogner's daughter Elisabeth Rethberg Magdalene, Eva's nurse Kerstin Thorborg Night Watchman George Cehanovsky Show Dates Mon, Nov 7 1938, 7:45pm Time and Place Middle of the Sixteenth Century; Nuremberg Scenes Act I -- Interior of St. Katherine's Church Act II -- Street in Nuremberg, Outside the Houses of Sachs and Pogner Act III, Scene 1 -- Interior of Hans Sachs's Workshop Scene 2 -- A Field on the Shores of the River Pegnitz Notes Incidental Dances by Corps de Ballet