The Metropolitan Opera: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (NR)

synopsis

Experience the ninth season of the Metropolitan Opera's Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series The Met: Live in HD in select cinemas nationwide. The broadcast of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg will be presented live on Saturday, December 13 at 12:00 p.m. ET / 9:00 a.m. PT.

James Levine conducts Wagner's epic comedy-back at the Met for the first time in eight years-about a group of Renaissance "master singers" whose song contest unites a city. Johan Reuter, Johan Botha, and Annette Dasch lead the superb international cast in this charming and magisterial celebration of the power of music and art.