Lise Davidsen and Michael Spyres in Tristan und Isolde at the Metropolitan Opera (Karen Almond / Met Opera) The second half of the 2025–26 season opens with a Wagner event for the ages, as blazing ...

Voice! Voice! And more voice! That’s what we got from the Met’s new production of Wagner’s TRISTAN UND ISOLDE last night, especially from the glorious soprano of Lise Davidsen as the Irish princess ...

NEW YORK — 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 make his ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

It was a night of many firsts. On Monday, March 9, the Metropolitan Opera celebrated the premiere of its new production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, which marked the company role debut of soprano ...

Wagner’s tragic love story “Tristan und Isolde” will be shown at the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish at 10 a.m. March 21. “Tristan und Isolde” is the sixth opera to be livestreamed through the ...

People who care about opera can’t stop talking about the baby, or “that damned baby” as a disgruntled patron put it on the way out of the Metropolitan Opera last week. It’s a directorial conceit in a ...

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