The coming into being of Meistersinger took two decades, right across Europe. Wagner made his first drafts in Bohemia, started on the text in Vienna and continued shaping his characters in a hotel room in Paris. So Wagner‘s German masters were – or at least some of them – born abroad. A dreamy summer night is suddenly hijacked by madness which ends in a senseless mass brawl. A «curious» St. John’s Day. (source: Oper Frankfurt)