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 ...

Artistic revolutions are rarely born easy. They complained about cubism, they grumbled about the "talkies" — and boy, did they bellyache over Wagner's trailblazing operas, especially Tristan und ...

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 ...

The first Tristan and Isolde, June 10, 1865: Ludwig Schnorr von Caroldsfeld and his wife, Helena Schnorr von Carolsfeld. Ludwig dropped dead five days after the performance! There are learned people ...

For more than seven 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 ...

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 ...

Experience the passion of the greatest love story ever told, set to the greatest music ever written for the human voice. Tristan und Isolde, Richard Wagner's 1865 opera, finally makes its Kansas City ...

Hail, Nina Stemme, goddess of opera! Hail, Houston Grand Opera for bringing her here! Hail, maestro Patrick Summers for a thrilling ride! If you are, as I am, an unregenerate Wagnerite — or for that ...

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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 ...