Die Meistersinger Composer Richard Wagner Librettist Richard Wagner Company San Francisco Opera Association Touring Location Los Angeles, CA Venue Shrine Auditorium Season 1961 Language German Creative/Crew Conductor Leopold Ludwig Stage Director(s) Paul Hager Chorus Director Vincenzo Giannini Choreographer Ghita Hager Costumers Goldstein & Co. Cast Walther von Stolzing, Franconian Knight Fritz Uhl Eva, Pogner's daughter Lisa della Casa Magdalene, Eva's companion Katherine Hilgenberg David, apprentice to Hans Sachs David Thaw Veit Pogner, goldsmith Otto von Rohr Sixtus Beckmesser, town clerk Geraint Evans Hans Sachs, Cobbler Paul Schoeffler Kunz Vogelgesang, furrier Raymond Manton Konrad Nachtigall, buckle-maker Donald Drain Fritz Kothner, baker Kieth Engen Balthazar Zorn, pewterer Raymond Nilsson Ulrich Eisslinger, Grocer Richard Riffel Hans Foltz, coppersmith Andrew Foldi Augustin Moser, tailor Howard Fried Hermann Ortel, soap-boiler Henry McGuckin Hans Schwarz, stocking-weaver Joshua Hecht Night Watchman Andrew Foldi Show Dates Sat, Oct 28 1961, 7:30pm Sun, Nov 12 1961, 3pm Time and Place Middle of the sixteenth century; Nürnberg Scenes Act I -- Interior of St. Katherine's church Act II -- Outside the homes of Sachs and Pogner Act III, Scene 1 -- Hans Sachs's workshop Scene 2 -- An open meadow near the river Pegnitz Notes Auxiliary Chorus Members of the Loring Club, Eugene Fulton, Director Corps de Ballet Kieth Engen's first name IS correctly spelled. He changed the spelling during his career in German opera houses.