As some try to lure audiences back with short programs, the Metropolitan Opera is staging its longest work: Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger.” 6:18 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 26, opening night of Wagner’s “Die ...

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, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The sprawling opera returned to the Met after seven years, with Antonio Pappano on the podium and an excellent cast. By Zachary Woolfe ...

In his highly anticipated return to the Met after 25 years, maestro Antonio Pappano, music director of London's Royal Opera, will lead six performances of Wagner's epic comedy Die Meistersinger von ...

It has been well over a year since Richard Jones’s Mastersingers came to English National Opera, but it’s still a production that thrills in the memory, a hard one to move past. But where the ...

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg is an opera in three acts, written and composed by Richard Wagner. It is among the longest operas commonly performed, usually taking around four and a half hours. It was ...

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BAYREUTH, Germany (AP) — In Wagner’s home theater, a twist has been added to the classic opera “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.” Instead of Walther joining the guild of master singers and preparing to ...

The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and San Francisco Opera invite you to an Opera on the Couch discussion of Die Meistersinger. There will be time for questions, and audience members may ...

Last week, with an anglicized version of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger, the Cincinnati Symphony ended its first season’s attempt at presenting grand opera as a part of its regular schedule. Four Wagner ...

“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 ...