Reviews for Katharina Wagner’s Meistersinger were mixed at best. “It was definitely not the stuff embraced by traditional Wagnerites. But if Wagner was concerned, she did not show it Thursday. ‘They didn’t understand it,’ she told The Associated Press of the negative voices. She said she was relieved and insisted that — no matter what the final judgment of Wednesday’s premiere was — she was ready to take over from her father ‘if the conditions were right’.”