If dire expectations are generated by a throwaway early-January release of an upscale historical epic, there is a mild surprise in store with "Tristan & Isolde." This understated period drama may lack ...

WAGNERITES and neophytes alike were in a state of bliss Thursday night at the War Memorial Opera House, induced by the San Francisco Opera’s splendid opening-night performance of “Tristan und Isolde.” ...

Love stories come and go, but few have the durability of “Tristan and Isolde.” Everyone from German Richard Wagner to Briton Richard Burton (who starred in a 1981 version called “Lovespell”) has been ...

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If dire expectations are generated by a throwaway early-January release of an upscale historical epic, there is a mild surprise in store with "Tristan & Isolde." This understated period drama may lack ...

Literature and legend are rife with young lovers tragically undone by war, politics and cruel fate. Director Baz Luhrmann understood that the naïveté of teenagers in love is a force to be reckoned ...