With the co-operation of pantomime, costume, color, lights, scenery, he invented a new art-patched and tinkered one, said his enemies, who thought him old-fashioned-and so "Der Ring," "Tristan und Isolde," "Die Meistersinger" and "Parsifal" were born.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
There is a convention that they shall be preluded; and Musa was preluded by the overture to Die Meistersinger.
"The Lion's Share"
E. Arnold Bennett
But not long after this he wrote Tristan und Isolde, in which alliteration is generally discarded for rime or blank verse, and a little later Meistersinger, which is a comedy of domestic life, and has nothing to do with mythology.
"Wagner's Tristan und Isolde"
George Ainslie Hight