Paul Selar takes a look at BK Opera's Tristan and Isolde - currently playing at the Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre.

This October, BK Opera will present Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. Directed by the award-winning Kate Millett calls it the “Mount Everest of opera” – choosing the monumental work as the summit ...

You’re back in Bayreuth with Mairi Nicolson for this year’s production of Richard Wagner’s groundbreaking Tristan und Isolde at the fabled festival. Praised as “the ultimate opera,” Wagner started ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

Wagner’s Tristan & Isolde is a great challenge for any contemporary opera company. This opera lasts over four hours long, and the challenge for any creative team is to keep the audience engaged while ...

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"Hörst du sie noch?" (Do you still hear them?) asks Isolde, listening for hunting horns receding in the distance by night. It is the first libretto line of Act Two of Richard Wagner's Tristan und ...

VIVA! Opera is a biweekly content broadcast on Tuesdays. In the 28th episode, Ms Ohtake picks up 'Mild und leise wie er lächelt' from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. 「Mild und leise wie er ...

In his 2024 book, “A New Philosophy of Opera,” the American director Yuval Sharon offered a radical vision for an art form that is often mired in convention and conformity. He posited that opera’s ...

On the topic of “Tristan und Isolde,” Richard Wagner once said, “Only mediocre performances can save me! Thoroughly good ones would drive people insane.” Fortunately for the body politic, perfect ...

You could make a persuasive case that a semi-staged concert performance is actually the most convincing option for Wagner’s mammoth philosophical meditation on myth, love, sex and death Tristan und ...