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 ...

Mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova, baritone Tomasz Konieczny, and bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green round out the principal cast as Brangane, Kurwenal, and King Marke respectively. Met Music Director ...

Acoustically that seems to have been a challenge for those I know who were present at the Met, the orchestra supposedly overwhelming the singers, but not in the sound for the screening. And the ...

It is also a five-hour, love-and-death-obsessed endurance test for audience and performers alike. Not much actually happens. Wagner’s genius lay in how his music itself created the compelling drama.

Neal Cooper’s noble Tristan and Cara Mchardy’s impassioned Isolde crowned an evening of rare flow and conviction ...

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 ...

In his book on reinventing opera, director Yuval Sharon describes Tristan und Isolde as “the single hardest work in the traditional repertoire to stage”. Yet here he is, about to make his Metropolitan ...

Following her iconoclastic role-reversing 2008 Meistersinger (Opus Arte, 3/11), Katharina Wagner now gets a novel focus on Tristan und Isolde by stripping the work, its characters and its settings ...

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The lovers are together then, but they spend the outer acts mostly apart, in their own personal hells. It’s vital that the soprano and tenor are equally matched, but given the insane vocal demands, ...

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