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Daniele Gatti

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Die Meistersinger at the Salzburg Festival, marking the Wagner bicentenary.Stefan Herheim’s staging was a huge success.With Japanese subtitles.In 2013, the bicentenary of Richard Wagner’s birth, the Salzburg Festival staged Die Meistersinger von Nrnberg. Because the Salzburg Festival runs at the same time as the Bayreuth Festival, it does not normally present Wagner’s operas; this was therefore a special event, and one into which enormous effort was poured.Above all, the production by the hugely fashionable Norwegian director Stefan Herheim (as a Norwegian, his first name is Stefan rather than the German Stephan) was received with great enthusiasm.Taking as his starting point the fact that Die Meistersinger is a midsummer story, Herheim frames it, rather in the manner of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as a dream of Sachs-as-Wagner, creating a fantastical staging that views the work from a striking