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 is bringing the Irish princess Isolde against her will to Cornwall to become the bride of his uncle, King Mark. Isolde is furiously angry; Tristan has not only killed her beloved, Morold, but ...

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 ...

Thorleifur Orn Arnarsson’s production of “Tristan und Isolde” at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany is an excellently conducted puzzle of grim symbols. By Joshua Barone Reviewing from Bayreuth, Germany ...

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 ...

Each new video iteration of Tristan und Isolde inspires advance trepidation. More beloved than any other Wagner opera, ...

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 ...

Isolde is a passionate young girl with a manipulative streak. But what Wagnerian soprano ever troubles to convey such mundane intricacies? At Longborough Lee Bissett does so, and with enormous ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Joshua Barone BOSTON — The love duet at the heart of Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” makes little sense. Breathless ecstasy is conveyed through ...

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 ...