Mastering Die Meistersinger

Wagner's Die Meistersinger is a challenge. But accept its limits, says Martin Kettle, and you're halfway thereThere are the great mythic operas of Wagner. And then there is Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. To Wagner-sceptics, Die Meistersinger – a classic boy-meets-girl tale set among the medieval streets of Nuremberg – presents a problem. The standard objections to the other Wagner operas don't apply here. Instead of the longing for death and the redemption of mankind, Meistersinger offers ...

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