A Note on Opera: "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"

Wagner's only comedy, "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" was described by George Bernard Shaw as "the broadest smile in the German language." Please join us as we explore this joyous embrace of all humanity, hearing it in the context of 1867 & free of the 20th-century trappings that later burdened it. To be taught in English.