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 ...

Review by Greg GortonBK Opera’s rendition of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde is an enthusiastic production that takes risks other companies rather take, while maintaining the core elements that make for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...