Wagners „Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg“ sind an der Oper Frankfurt musikalisch eine helle Freude, szenisch bleibt ein gemischter Eindruck. Richard Wagners „Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg“ sind ...

“It’s like an international flight,” whined a member of the Metropolitan Opera’s audience within earshot of me the last time that Richard Wagner’s longest opera, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, was ...

BAYREUTH – In Wagner's home theater, a twist has been added to the classic opera “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.” Instead of Walther joining the guild of master singers and preparing to marry Eva ...

„Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg“ in der Deutschen Oper Berlin kommen verhältnismäßig unverdrossen daher. Eine Lässigkeit liegt über den neuen Berliner „Meistersingern von Nürnberg“. In einem ...

Illuminating in swathes but dim in patches, David McVicar‘s handsome production of Wagner’s sprawling comedy is revived five years on from its first appearance and opens the Glyndebourne Festival in ...

Young Walther finds himself compelled to win a singing competition, because the prize is the hand of Eva in marriage. Entrants need to be well versed in the ancient rules of the mastersingers to even ...

The Bayreuth Festival's annual new production is one of the most eagerly awaited events of the operatic calendar, and in 2025 Matthias Davids brings his experience as a multi-award-winning director of ...

Billed as the opera event of 2025, Melbourne Opera's multi-million dollar production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg will see opera lovers converge in Melbourne from 16–22 February. Audiences will ...

BAYREUTH, Germany (AP) — In Wagner’s home theater, a twist has been added to the classic opera “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.” Instead of Walther joining the guild of master singers and preparing to ...

There was, unfortunately, more than a whiff of Panto about the Royal Opera’s latest revival of Wagner’s great (some might say dubious) paean to holy German art, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Coming ...

The darker than usual ending isn't the problem. Harder to take are the vagueness with which the crucial human relationships are sketched and the botched topography of a second act which is the ...