Instrumentation
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Voices, Chorus and Orchestra
- Cast
- Eva, Pogner's daughter (soprano)
Magdalena, Eva's nurse (mezzo-soprano) Walther von Stolzing, a young knight from Franconia (heldentenor) David, Sachs' apprentice (high character-tenor) A Nightwatchman (bass-baritone)
- Meistersingers
- Augustin Moser, tailor (tenor)
Balthasar Zorn, pewterer (tenor) Kunz Vogelgesang, furrier (tenor) Ulrich Eisslinger, grocer (tenor) Sixtus Beckmesser, town clerk (baritone) Fritz Kothner, baker (baritone) Hans Sachs, cobbler (bass-baritone) Hans Foltz, coppersmith (bass) Hans Schwarz, stocking weaver (bass) Konrad Nachtigall, tinsmith (bass) Hermann Ortel, soapmaker (bass) Veit Pogner, goldsmith (bass)
- Chorus (SATB)
- mixed chorus of citizens of all guilds and their wives, journeymen,
apprentices, young women, people of Nuremberg
- Orchestra
- piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (B♭), 2 bassoons
4 horns (F), 3 trumpets (2 in F and 1 in C), 3 trombones, tuba timpani, bass drum, snare drum, triangle, cymbals, glockenspiel, harp, strings
- Onstage Instruments
- trumpets (B♭), horns, drums, organ, lute
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