“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 ...

It is considered the "most German" of Richard Wagner's operas. Adolf Hitler used the work for his propaganda purposes. Productions of Wagner's opera "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" divide audiences.

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 ...

Richard Wagner’s three-act music drama, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, was staged at the Berlin Staatsoper on 15 December 2024. Directed by Andrea Moses and conducted by Alexander Soddy, the ...

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 ...

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, ...

A classic production from the Bayreuth Festival is made available here for the first time on DVD! Staged and directed by Richard Wagner’s grandson Wolfgang Wagner at the Bayreuther Festspiele in 1999, ...