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Critical clunk: Bayreuth’s Meistersinger goes Monty Python (again)

Critical clunk: Bayreuth’s Meistersinger goes Monty Python (again)

The headline in Vienna’s Die Presse on Matthias Davids’s new production at the 2025 Bayreuth Festival reads: ‘As if Monty Python had been the inspiration for the “Meistersinger”.

Why does that cliché ring a bell?

A quick online search finds the same Python metaphor applied by critics of a Bayreuth Meistersinger in 2011 and 2017. It’s not the show that has gone stale, it’s the critics.

photo: Enrico Nawrath/BayreuthFestival

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