Richard Wagner - Beckmesser's Serenade and the Scuffle

"Den Tag seh' ich erscheinen"/"Mit den Schuhen ward isch fertig schier!". "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg", german opera in three acts. Music and text by Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883).

Beckmesser arrives and wants to sing a serenade to Eva; Sachs interrupts him by launching into a full-bellied cobbling song, and hammering the soles of the half-made shoes. Annoyed, Beckmesser tells him to stop, but the cobbler replies that he has to finish the shoes, whose lateness Beckmesser had publicly complained about previously. Sachs offers a compromise: he will be quiet and let Beckmesser sing, but he will be Beckmesser's "marker", and mark each of Beckmesser's musical/poetical errors by striking one of the soles with his hammer. Beckmesser, who has spotted someone at Eva's window (Magdalena in disguise), has no time to argue. He tries to sing his serenade, but he makes so many mistakes (his tune repeatedly places accents on the wrong syllables of the words) that from the repeated knocks Sachs finishes the shoes. David wakes up and sees Beckmesser apparently serenading Magdalena. He attacks Beckmesser in a fit of jealous rage. The entire neighbourhood is awakened by the noise. The other apprentices rush into the fray, and the situation degenerates into a full-blown riot. In the confusion, Walther tries to escape with Eva, but Sachs pushes Eva into her home and drags Walther into his own workshop. Quiet is restored as abruptly as it was broken. A lone figure walks through the street -- the night watchman, calling out the hour.

Performers: Herbert von Karajan & Staatskapelle Dresden.

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