Die Meistersinger Composer Richard Wagner Librettist Richard Wagner Company San Francisco Opera Association Touring Location Los Angeles, CA Venue Music Center Pavilion Season 1965 Language German Creative/Crew Conductor Leopold Ludwig Stage Director(s) Paul Hager Chorus Director Vincenzo Giannini Costumers Goldstein & Co. Cast Walther von Stolzing, Franconian Knight Jess Thomas Eva, Pogner's daughter Pilar Lorengar Magdalene, Eva's companion Claramae Turner David, apprentice to Hans Sachs Alexander Young Veit Pogner, goldsmith Thomas O'Leary Sixtus Beckmesser, town clerk Toni Blankenheim Hans Sachs, Cobbler Heinz Imdahl Kunz Vogelgesang, furrier William Whitesides Konrad Nachtigall, buckle-maker Richard Fredricks Fritz Kothner, baker Chester Ludgin Hermann Ortel, soap-maker Adib Fazah Balthazar Zorn, pewterer Robert Glover Augustin Moser, tailor Howard Fried Ulrich Eisslinger, Grocer Raymond Manton Hans Foltz, coppersmith John West Hans Schwarz, stocking-weaver Joshua Hecht Apprentice Dolores San Miguel Night Watchman Joshua Hecht Show Dates Fri, Nov 12 1965, 7:30pm Time and Place Nürnberg; middle of the sixteenth century 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 Pegnitz River Notes Corps de Ballet Auxiliary Chorus: Members of the Loring Club, Eugene Fulton, Director