Next we'll hear about a film that our reviewer describes as `boy meets girl, boy loses girl, and so on from there.' It's a new film called "Tristan & Isolde," and it revisits a classic medieval story ...

Staging “Tristan and Isolde” poses unique challenges. Wagner distilled the originally Celtic legend of forbidden love to an ultra-minimalist plot in which no external action happens for vast stretches ...

PHILADELPHIA — On Sunday afternoon at Marian Anderson Hall, Yannick Nézet-Séguin led his Philadelphia Orchestra through the four-hour entirety of Richard Wagner’s ‘Tristan and Isolde.” And I don’t ...

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BERLIN (AP) — Bayreuth’s annual opera festival is kicking off with a new production of Richard Wagner’s “Tristan and Isolde” by the composer’s great-granddaughter, festival director Katharina Wagner.

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If you live in Seattle and you’ve never been to the Seattle Opera, you’ve been wasting a precious and delicious resource, and it’s time for this to stop. In addition to the fact that classical music ...

Wagner’s five-hour Tristan und Isolde — returning to the Philadelphia Orchestra for the first time since 1934 — is something that great musicians long to live up to and hold for conditions to be as ...

(One moment, when Tristan says he is now Isolde and she is Tristan, seems to prefigure the all-consuming love of “Call Me by Your Name.”) Kaufmann and Nylund are both Wagner veterans, but neither has ...

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 ...

BAYREUTH, Germany — Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson's phone rang in his Icelandic highlands cabin back in January 2022. Katharina Wagner, the Bayreuth festival director and great-granddaughter of composer ...