Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg | Opera review

Millennium Centre, CardiffBefore a note of Welsh National Opera's new Die Meistersinger has been heard, Richard Jones's production makes its first statement. The front cloth is a giant, Sgt Pepper-style collage showing mugshots of four centuries of German artists, from Bach and Handel to Beuys and Fassbinder. The "holy German art" that Hans Sachs defends in his final, reproving monologue in Wagner's epic is something to be celebrated, the image suggests, and here are some of the men and women r...

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