Staatsoper Stuttgart

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg | Staatsoper Stuttgart | 1.3.26 With her new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , director Elisabeth Stöppler undertakes the ambitious task of interpreting Wagner’s only “comic opera” as a multi-layered reflection on art, society, and ideology. The focus lies less on the romantic narrative than on the work’s reception history—particularly its ideological appropriation during National Socialism. While she does succeed in addressing this