Even by the standards of opera, an art form not known for its brevity, some epics test the endurance of audiences and performers alike. Consider “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg,” a comic opera by ...

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, ...

The curtain that rises on the first act of the San Francisco Opera’s enthralling new production of Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger” reveals a broad internal landscape. True, we find ourselves inside a ...

There has not been a time in recent memory when this community needed "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg" as much as it does now. Richard Wagner's sole mature comedy radiates optimism about youthful love ...

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 ...