Director Barrie Kosky’s explosive take on Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg caused a sensation at the 2017 Bayreuth Festival. The “astonishingly entertaining and convincing” production (Der Spiegel) boldly confronts Die Meistersinger’s nationalistic and anti-Semitic attitudes head-on: Wagner himself is placed centre stage, amid references to many figures from the composer’s life: his wife Cosima becomes the heroine Eva, and Hermann Levi, the conductor Wagner humiliated, becomes the reviled...Les mer

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