This is the first release in any format of a performance of Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg that took place in Milan on 13 Feb 1955, recorded on acetate discs and broadcast over the RAI airwaves. Its unique cast, singing under the direction of Hans Rosbaud, features many fine, and some more obscure, singers and/or Wagnerians of this glorious era in Wagnerian production, including Otto Edelmann, Ludwig Weber, Ira Malaniuk, Gerhard Unger, and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, renowned for her R. Strauss roles, as Eva.
