The Yeomen of the Guard has been called the ‘English Meistersinger’ but the more you think about that, the dafter it gets.
It’s not just the very obvious difference in scale and means between Wagner’s five-hour national epic and Gilbert and Sullivan’s sprightly opéra comique. Wagner’s whole drama builds to a collective affirmation of German art.
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