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Richard Wagner
die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

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Performed at the Metropolitan Opera House
February 10, 1945

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Hans Sachs ~ Herbert Janssen
Eva ~ Eleanor Steber
Magdalene ~ Kirsten Thorborg
Walther von Stolzing ~ Charles Kullman
Beckmesser ~ Gerhard Pechner
David ~ John Garris
Pogner ~ Emanuel List
Kothner ~ Mack Harrell
Vogelgesang ~ Morton Bowe
Zorn ~ Richard Manning
Eisslinger ~ Karl Laufkoetter
Moser ~ Lodovico Oliviero
Nachtigal ~ Hugh Thompson
Ortel ~ Osie Hawkins
Foltz ~ Lorenzo Alvary
Watchman ~ Louis d'Angelo

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Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera
George Szell, conducting

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This broadcast was foreshortened to the point of the entrance of the
Meistersingers, and the final six minutes is missing, due to emergency
radio transmissions relating to the war.

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