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The Metropolitan Opera's new production of Richard Wagner 's Tristan und Isolde opened March 9—and the reviews are in! The opera, based on a 12-century romance, tells the story of Tristan, a knight ...

“This Tristan is becoming something terrible!” wrote Richard Wagner while working on the third act of what was to become his most famous opera. “I fear the opera will be forbidden unless the whole ...

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 ...

NEW YORK – 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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The creators of a new “Tristan und Isolde” production explain the influences behind every element of a crucial scene. One scene near the end of Act I of “Tristan und Isolde” at ...

Richard Wagner was a difficult person, to put it lightly—an infamous anti-Semite and world-historical egoist known for displaying ingratitude and duplicity toward lovers, friends, and benefactors ...

“Our intentions are anachronistic,” said the German director Roland Schwab about his Bayreuth Festival production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, adding, “I want to achieve a sense of escapism.” That ...

Lise Davidsen and Michael Spyres in Tristan und Isolde at the Metropolitan Opera (Karen Almond / Met Opera) The second half of the 2025–26 season opens with a Wagner event for the ages, as blazing ...

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 ...

“Opera itself is permission to imagine,” says Clint Ramos, the Tony Award-winning designer who’s responsible for the costumes on stage in the Metropolitan Opera’s anticipate new production of Tristan ...

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 ...