Barrie Kosky’s mind-boggling production uses a giant puppet and the Nuremberg trials as a backdrop to ask: how far does the composer’s antisemitism taint his art?

1 Photos: SIX THE MUSICAL in Rehearsal Ahead of Melbourne Run 2 Photos: Backstage at WAITRESS THE MUSICAL With the Original Australian Cast in Melbourne Audiences will experience a 4.5-hour production ...

Few operas are as mountainous as Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.” The rarely performed work, rich with sonic booming and spitty glottal fricatives, has a running time of almost six hours. It ...

The darker than usual ending isn't the problem. Harder to take are the vagueness with which the crucial human relationships are sketched and the botched topography of a second act which is the ...

It has been well over a year since Richard Jones’s Mastersingers came to English National Opera, but it’s still a production that thrills in the memory, a hard one to move past. But where the ...

Young Walther finds himself compelled to win a singing competition, because the prize is the hand of Eva in marriage. Entrants need to be well versed in the ancient rules of the mastersingers to even ...