Wagner 200: Mastersingers of Nuremberg
Lucie Skeaping looks at the real lives of the Mastersingers immortalised by Wagner.
The Early Music Show · BBC Radio 3
May 19, 201317m 31s
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Show Notes
Immortalised by Wagner in his famous opera, Lucie Skeaping looks back on the life and music of the real Hans Sachs and his fellow Mastersingers in 16th Century Germany.
First broadcast in March 2007.