Paul Curran makes his Company debut directing his production from Venice’s Teatro La Fenice which features renowned Wagnerian interpreters Simon O’Neill and Anja Kampe in the title roles. Rooted in ...

The Santa Fe Opera proved it was possible to stage a high-quality Tristan und Isolde at an elevation of nearly 7,000 feet with its new production of Richard Wagner’s vocal behemoth, which opened ...

Tristan und Isolde is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the 12th-century romance Tristan by Gottfried von Strassburg. It was composed ...

It’s not an opera to be tackled lightly, and that goes for spectators as much as musicians. As Stephen Gould said in his recent interview with WhatsOnStage, the more audiences prepare themselves for a ...

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Tristan und Isolde is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the 12th-century romance Tristan and Iseult by Gottfried von Strassburg. It was ...

Ticciati knew from 2021 that he could depend upon a rock-solid Isolde in Miina-Liisa Värelä. The Finnish dramatic soprano takes the full weight of the voice, even throughout the register, up to the ...

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 ...

This is the more surprising as I’d envisaged one of those productions where the visuals do the work while two heffalump lovers stand or sit to one side, a bit like Bill Viola’s compensatory films last ...

Met audiences were fascinated by Mariusz Treliński’s gripping, visionary production of Wagner’s epic opera. In the daunting title roles of the doomed lovers, Nina Stemme and Stuart Skelton are ...

At Santa Fe Opera, Wagner’s work is being presented for the first time, in a striking, modest staging that makes space for the music. By David Allen SANTA FE, N.M. — The play of light has always been ...

San Francisco Opera presents Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde from October 19 to November 5, featuring conductor Eun Sun Kim and director Paul Curran in his company debut. The production stars ...