In Die Meistersinger, Wagner will persuade us that the highborn artist impatient of rules can be reconciled to bourgeois society and find love with a woman perfectly aware of his mortality. No gods are involved.

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NEXT TIME: Our last new production of the season is of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Since I won’t be seeing that until late in May, I’ll be taking a look at Immortal Performances’ release devoted to the Isolde of Frida Leider, along with the operatic portion of Marston’s package devoted to Herbert Janssen. Let’s make that on Friday, May 19.

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