“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 ...

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 ...

Tristan und Isolde features sets by Es Devlin, costumes by Clint Ramos, lighting by John Torres, projections by Jason H. Thompson, video design by Ruth Hogben, and choreography by Annie-B Parson.

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 ...

Dramatic soprano Lise Davidsen stars as Isolde, the Irish princess at the center of Wagner's meditation on love and death. Opposite her, tenor Michael Spyres performs the role of Tristan for ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — In his book on reinventing opera, director Yuval Sharon describes “Tristan und Isolde” as “the single hardest work in the traditional repertoire to stage.” Yet here he is, about to ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Audiences are packing the theater for a new “Tristan und Isolde.” Everyone can see the same spectacle, but they probably don’t hear ...

Even before he created his production for Glyndebourne in 2003, Nikolaus Lehnhoff had directed Tristan und Isolde many times. He always took the view that the locations of a ship, a garden and a ...

A new production of Tristan und Isolde will be an experience that even seasoned Wagnerians may have rarely encountered. French filmmaker Philippe Grandrieux makes his opera directorial debut, drawing ...

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 ...