BAYREUTH, Germany (AP) — 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 ...

On the topic of “Tristan und Isolde,” Richard Wagner once said, “Only mediocre performances can save me! Thoroughly good ones would drive people insane.” Fortunately for the body politic, perfect ...

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 ...

Isolde attempts to poison Tristan and herself on the voyage, but her maid Brangane swaps out the poison for love potion, with ultimately tragic consequences. Director Yuval Sharon makes his ...

BAYREUTH, Germany (AP) — 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 ...

This August 2024 photo shows director Thorleifur rn Arnarsson outside the Bayreuth Festpielhaus in Bayreuth, Germany during rehearsals for his production of Wagners Tristan und Isolde. (Thorleifur rn ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BAYREUTH, Germany (AP) — Thorleifur Örn ...