James Levine leads Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (“The Master-Singer of Nuremberg”) in its first Great Performances at the Met broadcast. Michael Volle is the cobbler-poet Hans Sachs, ...

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 ...

The question on everyone’s lips was “Can she do it?” “She” is 29-year-old Katharina Wagner, and “it” was pull off a successful debut as a stage director at the Bayreuth Festival, established by ...

In his highly anticipated return to the Met after 25 years, maestro Antonio Pappano, music director of London's Royal Opera, will lead six performances of Wagner's epic comedy Die Meistersinger von ...

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 ...

For more than seven decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

It has been well over a year since Richard Jones’s Mastersingers came to English National Opera, but it’s still a production that thrills in the memory, a hard one to move past. But where the ...

Wagner, it has to be said, is a composer that provokes strong reactions from audiences. There are those who cherish every single second and those who would never be caught dead enduring over five ...

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