The story of Tristan and Isolde has roots that may date back to the 8th-century story of a Pictish prince named Drust who saved a princess from pirates. As the story spread south to Wales, Drust ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Opera itself is permission to imagine,” says Clint Ramos, the Tony Award-winning designer who’s responsible for the costumes on stage in the Metropolitan Opera’s anticipate new production of Tristan ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...