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Updated: June 21, 2025
Katherine, at Nuremberg, with the singing of a chorale to organ accompaniment. During the chorale and its interludes a quiet love-scene is being enacted between Eva, daughter of the wealthy goldsmith Veit Pogner, and Walter von Stolzing, a noble young knight. The attraction is mutual. Eva is ready to become his bride, but it is necessary that her husband should be a mastersinger.
Pogner sets Sachs's suggestion aside with perfect civility and good humour. "The thing I am about to do is novel already. Too much novelty at one time might bring in its wake regret...." "Sufficient to me," Sachs yields the point, "is the maiden's right of refusal!" "That cobbler always excites my wrath!" mutters Beckmesser. They pass to the order of the day. "Who enters the lists as a candidate?
Hopeless after that, Magdalene recognises, to attempt dragging indoors the damsel. She hurries in by herself to content Pogner with some discreet misrepresentation. With passionate endearments Walther and Eva have rushed into each other's arms. All is lost which depended upon his winning the title of master-singer.
After a long dialogue between them the other masters assemble, Hans Sachs, the cobbler-bard, coming in last. After a long parley among the gossiping masters, Pogner introduces Walter as a candidate for election. When he displays the slate it is found to be covered with them.
As the meeting is about to pass to the business of the day, Pogner asks for the floor, and unfolds before the assembled guild his romantic scheme: The following is Saint John's day, when it is customary for the master-singers to hold a song-contest out in the open, among the people, the victorious singer receiving a prize.
The arrangement does seem, closely considered, rather hard on the young lady, and one fancies more than once, in the course of the play, a shade of sheepishness in the father's own attitude toward it, momentary ripples of misgiving. A voice of beautiful, calm, corrective sanity is now raised in the assembly. "Your pardon!" speaks Sachs to Pogner, "you have perhaps already gone somewhat far.
There are congratulations and rejoicings. In the general glow of good-humour, voices of master-singers call out to Pogner: "Up Master Pogner, and announce to his lordship his admission to the master-guild!"
Veit Pogner, a rich silversmith, desiring to honor the craft of the mastersingers, to whose guild he belongs, offers his daughter Eva in marriage to the successful competitor at the annual meeting of the mastersingers on the feast of St. John. After a flirtation in church during divine service, Walther meets her before she leaves the building, and asks if she be betrothed.
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