Opera Review: The Met's (Very) Long-Running Meistersinger
Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg lingers on the moment when one era rolls into the next, when nostalgia is vaporized by innovation, decorum trumped by joy. It's an opera about a singing contest, and like virtually every victory-of-talent story " Project Runway, Billy Elliot, Fame, Dreamgirls, Friday Night Lights " it follows ... More »