Die Meistersinger Composer Richard Wagner Librettist Richard Wagner Company San Francisco Opera Association Touring Location Los Angeles, CA Venue Shrine Auditorium Season 1948 Language German Creative/Crew Conductor William Steinberg Stage Director(s) William Wymetal Chorus Director Kurt Herbert Adler Technical Director Armando Agnini Cast Hans Sachs, Cobbler Herbert Janssen Pogner, Goldsmith Nicola Moscona Vogelgesang, Furrier Paul Walti Nachtigall, buckle-maker Theodor Uppman Beckmesser, Town Clerk Walter Olitzki Kothner, Baker Daniel Duno Zorn, Pewterer Alessio De Paolis Eisslinger, Grocer Leslie Chabay Moser, Tailor James Schwabacher Ortel, soap-boiler George Cehanovsky Schwarz, Stocking-weaver Desire Ligeti Foltz, Coppersmith John Ford Sir Walther von Stolzing, Franconian Knight Set Svanholm David, apprentice to Hans Sachs John Garris Eva, Pogner's daughter Astrid Varnay Magdalene, Eva's nurse Herta Glaz Night Watchman Richard Sharretts Show Dates Sun, Oct 24 1948, 2pm 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 Homes 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 Corps de Ballet The Roger Wagner Chorale