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 ...

Acoustically that seems to have been a challenge for those I know who were present at the Met, the orchestra supposedly overwhelming the singers, but not in the sound for the screening. And the ...

The powerful new production of Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” by Mariusz Treliński, which opened the Metropolitan Opera season on Monday, demonstrates a significant change in the house style since the ...

In his 2024 book, “A New Philosophy of Opera,” the American director Yuval Sharon offered a radical vision for an art form that is often mired in convention and conformity. He posited that opera’s ...

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 ...

As in his 2015 staging of “Iolanta,” Mariusz Treliński’s season-opening production of “Tristan und Isolde” turns late-Romantic romance into post-Hitchcockian psychodrama. The result is risky but ...

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 ...

An excerpt from Act 3 of Tristan und Isolde, starring Nina Stemme and Stuart Skelton. The Met’s new production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle in his first Met ...