BlurbIs it possible that Kasper Holten, Covent Garden's outgoing director of opera, has directed a Meistersinger about himself It certainly looks a lot like it. This black take on Wagner's sunniest and most humane opera finds doubts and uncertainties at every turn, closing not with a paean to national art but a cautionary tale about cultural insularity and convention.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:18PM on March 12, 2017