“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 ...
The list is nearly complete: the repertoire of “Bayreuth by the Danube” – the Budapest Wagner Days festival held annually at the Palace of Arts – is expanding once again to include a new work in 2013, ...
There was, unfortunately, more than a whiff of Panto about the Royal Opera’s latest revival of Wagner’s great (some might say dubious) paean to holy German art, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Coming ...