At Santa Fe Opera, Wagner’s work is being presented for the first time, in a striking, modest staging that makes space for the music. By David Allen SANTA FE, N.M. — The play of light has always been ...

A Wooden Holztrompete Joins the Met’s New 'Tristan Und Isolde' Production NEW YORK (AP) — About 4 1/2 hours after the first notes of Wagner's “Tristan und Isolde,” a startling sound emerges from the ...

PHILADELPHIA — On Sunday afternoon at Marian Anderson Hall, Yannick Nézet-Séguin led his Philadelphia Orchestra through the four-hour entirety of Richard Wagner’s ‘Tristan and Isolde.” And I don’t ...

It’s not an opera to be tackled lightly, and that goes for spectators as much as musicians. As Stephen Gould said in his recent interview with WhatsOnStage, the more audiences prepare themselves for a ...

Wagner's epic meditation on love turns 150. Projected on a cosmic level, the music triggered a seismic shift in Western music. 'Tristan Und Isolde,' The Love Story That Changed Opera For Good Artistic ...

NEW YORK (AP) — About 4 1/2 hours after the first notes of Wagner's “Tristan und Isolde,” a startling sound emerges from the wings, one many in the audience likely have never heard before. A nearly ...

The centerpiece of Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde,” an opera that takes both romance and Western tonality to extremes, is the surging love scene in Act II. A clandestine rendezvous under the cover of ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — About 4 1/2 hours after the first notes of Wagner's “Tristan und Isolde,” a startling sound emerges from the wings, one many in the audience likely have never heard before. A wooden ...

The Royal Opera’s new production of Tristan und Isolde is a remarkable achievement on every conceivable level. It would be impossible to hear a better sung, played or conducted performance of this ...