. The Victrola book of the opera : stories of one hundred and twenty operas with seven-hundred illustrations and descriptions of twelve-hundred Victor opera records . chs EVA, Pogners daughter MAGDALENA, Evas nurse Bass Bass Tenor Bass Bass Bass Tenor Tenor Tenor Bass Bass Bass .TenorTenor. Soprano. Soprano Burghers of all Guilds, Journeymen, Apprentices, Girls and : Nuremberg in the middle of the sixteenth century. To the opera-going public in general Meistersinger is the mostentertaining of all the Wagner operas. Its gaiety and tunefulness arecharming, and its story easily unders


. The Victrola book of the opera : stories of one hundred and twenty operas with seven-hundred illustrations and descriptions of twelve-hundred Victor opera records . chs EVA, Pogners daughter MAGDALENA, Evas nurse Bass Bass Tenor Bass Bass Bass Tenor Tenor Tenor Bass Bass Bass .TenorTenor. Soprano. Soprano Burghers of all Guilds, Journeymen, Apprentices, Girls and : Nuremberg in the middle of the sixteenth century. To the opera-going public in general Meistersinger is the mostentertaining of all the Wagner operas. Its gaiety and tunefulness arecharming, and its story easily understood by an audience, whichcannot be said of most of the works by the master. The humor is essentially German,—an intermingling of play-fulness, satire, practical jokes, and underneath all something ofseriousness and even sadness, while the romantic element, providedby the lovers, Eva and Walter, is not lacking. The opera is a satire on the musical methods of the days ofthe Reformation, the mediaeval burghers life in Nuremberg beingpictured with a master hand. The loves of Walter and Eva; thenoble philosophy of Sachs, the cobbler-poet; the envy of the ridicu-. OTTO GORITZAS HANS SACHS 315


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