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 ...

An opera about a singing contest would seem an obvious candidate for a modern-era production and that’s exactly what Fulham Opera has chosen to do in its compact version of Die Meistersinger. But ...

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AT NEARLY five hours, Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg (The Master-Singers Of Nuremberg) is the world’s longest commonly performed opera. Including the intervals, it adds up to six and a half hours.

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Opera Australia takes on Wagner's comedy in this Royal Opera House co-production Wagner was never one for brevity, and he certainly didn’t think it was the soul of wit; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A festival setting, a summer’s day, a performance of Meistersinger: what more could the English operagoer want?

Art triumphs over all, but in David McVicar’s production it’s a triumph of peculiarly human complication – a victory that leaves a hero in tears, that crowns some of opera’s most reactionary ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. After staging Tristan und Isolde, its first Wagner opera, in 2003, Glyndebourne progressed last year to Meistersinger ...