At numerous points, the text refers to the phrase "fanget an!"
In praising this opera, Virgil Thompson wrote that its composer was better "without his erotico-metaphysical paraphernalia than with it." At numerous points, the text refers to the phrase "fanget an!" or "let us begin." A night watchman sounds his horn to mark the tenth hour as two characters talk of eloping, and that watchman reappears at the end of the second act to sound his horn and end a riot, which is reflected on in the later monologue "Wahn, Wahn, Uberall Wahn!" lamenting the omnipresence of madness. The aging maid Magdalena is courted by young David and the goldsmith's daughter Eva Pogner is courted by scheming clerk Sextus Beckmesser, but she ends up with the Franconian knight Walther von Stolzing. FTP, name this opera about Hans Sachs and the title performers, composed by Richard Wagner.
In praising this opera, Virgil Thompson wrote that its composer was better "without his erotico-metaphysical paraphernalia than with it."
Die {Meistersinger} von Nurnberg (or The Meistersingers of Nuremberg)