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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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg centres on a group of medieval Master ...

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 ...

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 ...