"A masterly Meistersinger," by Paul du Quenoy

"A masterly Meistersinger," by Paul du Quenoy

“It’s like an international flight,” whined a member of the Metropolitan Opera’s audience within earshot of me the last time that Richard Wagner’s longest opera, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, was performed in New York. She probably did not make it to this year’s Bayreuth Festival, which opened with a new production of Meistersinger by the German director Matthias Davids. Including the festival’s generous intermissions, each of which lasted a b…