Wandering knight Walther pleads his case before The Mastersingers of Nuremberg.
It’s always the way. You wait ages for a Wagner opera to appear and then two turn up at once! His early masterpiece The Flying Dutchman has just opened at the Royal Opera House, and now The Mastersingers of Nuremberg appears at the London Coliseum. The former is certainly worth seeing, but it is the latter that surely stands as one of the greatest creations in all of opera, if not mankind.
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