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 »
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:40AM on December 4, 2014