“Tristan and Isolde” is back at San Francisco Opera, 18 years after the company last performed Richard Wagner’s musical epic of love, betrayal and death. The production that opened on ...
In the case of Tristan und Isolde, what we get here is a stage set that only barely suggests the wooden ship on which Tristan escorts Ireland’s princess Isolde to Cornwall where she is to marry ...
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I’ve seen more wildly intense productions of this opera, but never one which makes its essential message seem so beautiful and seductive. Tristan and Isolde is at Glyndebourne Festival Opera ...
"There are many Richard Wagner fans in China. It is very exciting and encouraging to see such cooperation between the world's ...
Through the power of a love potion, Tristan and Isolde have fatefully fallen for ... captured in Richard Wagner's opera, which premiered in 1865, in which the music becomes almost the sole carrier ...
A staging of Tristan und Isolde by Mariusz Treliński, artistic director of the National Opera in Warsaw, will open the 2016/2017 season at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In June, the opera will ...
Leonard Bernstein’s seemingly ambivalent fascination with Wagner’s Tristan had begun as early as the 1950s with substantial televised excerpts with his New York Philharmonic, Ramón Vinay and Martha ...
It is also worth noting that the opera's renowned Tristan chords ... Katharina Wagner notes that Schwab's production of Tristan and Isolde is refreshing and presents dramatic scenes.