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, ...

Depending on the production, “Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg” is either a joyful night at the opera or an endurance test. The new San Francisco Opera production is a little bit — or a lot — of both.

It is 17 days before the opening of Georg Solti’s Chicago Symphony Orchestra performances of “Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg” and already the maestro is fretting. The day before, his leading lady, ...

Last week at a press conference announcing the Metropolitan Opera’s 2007–08 season, James Levine took pains to counterbalance the buzz about the new looks of productions in the Peter Gelb regime by ...

Bayreuth's 2025 Production of Wagner's 'Meistersinger' Features a Technicolor Look — and a Twist BAYREUTH, Germany (AP) — In Wagner's home theater, a twist has been added to the classic opera “Die ...

Watch as Lise Davidsen, Claudia Mahnke, Klaus Florian Vogt, Paul Appleby, and Michael Volle sing an excerpt from the Act III quintet in the final dress rehearsal. The clip is conducted by Antonio ...

The Metropolitan Opera in New York stages the longest opera in the repertoire and also marks the triumphant return of Maestro Antonio Pappano to its podium for the first time in nearly 25 years. The ...

Young Knight Walther von Stolzing has settled in Nuremberg and fell immediately on the first day in Eva, the daughter of his host of Veit Pogner. Marry he can Eva - who reciprocated his love - but ...

There are no small Wagner operas, but even by those standards "Die Meistersinger" is a whopper -- a five-hour celebration of artistic innovation, tradition and young love that blends oversize ...

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