Various - Wagnerdie Meistersinger

I see Die Meistersinger as the pivot and central point of Wagner�s entire oeuvre. On the one hand it is a reaction to Tristan; on the other, he had found himself in a blind alley with Siegfried, and together those two works showed him the way out of it. The fascinating thing about Die Meistersinger is that you can find everything in it. Hero and anti-hero, comedy and tragedy, upper-class and lower-class lovers,