voices, mixed chorus, 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)
- Mixed Chorus (SATB)
- citizens of all guilds and their wives, journeymen,
apprentices, young women, people of Nuremberg
- Orchestra
- piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinet, 2 bassoons
4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba
timpani, bass drum, snare drum, triangle, cymbals, glockenspiel, harp, strings
- Onstage Instruments
- trumpets, horns, drums, organ, lute