Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at Royal Opera House review: a spectacular production that’s a perfect send-off for director Kasper Holten Wagner’s great comic drama, Die Meistersinger, premiered in 1868 and has been hugely successful ever since. It portrays the clash of the old and the new, of tradition and progress, of ancient and modern. The Nürnberg choir festival is shaken when a young knight, Walter, comes to the town and falls in love with Eva, [...]