Corey Bix

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - The San Francisco Opera

David McVicar, Frank Zamacona

James Rutherford, Brandon Jovanovich

It is love at first sight when the knight Walther von Stolzing first meets the goldsmith’s daughter, Eva. But tradition trumps love in 19th-century Nuremberg. Her father has decreed there’s only one way to win Eva’s hand in marriage, and that’s to join Nuremberg’s guild of competitive singers—and beat them all in song.