Mistrzowska gra w skojarzenia
A Masterful Game of Associations

Summary/Abstract: A review of Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg directed by Barrie Kosky (Richard Wagner Festspiele, premiere: 25.07.2017). Łada-Zielke highlights the issues in Wagner’s plot, adding the questions raised by the Australian director concerning the destructive power of stereotypes. She shows how Kosky plays with the form of the opera, identifying the fictitious protagonists with the family and friends of the composer, who becomes the play’s central figure. The author notes a few misfired ideas, and uses the negative audience response to indicate the literalness of the artist’s strategies.

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