This image released by the Philadelphia Opera shows Soprano Nina Stemme, from top left, tenor Stuart Skelton, and baritone Brian Mulligan, with the Philadelphia Orchestra led by music director Yannick ...

“Our intentions are anachronistic,” said the German director Roland Schwab about his Bayreuth Festival production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, adding, “I want to achieve a sense of escapism.” That ...

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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 ...

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 ...

In all the world there are probably only 15 tenors capable of stepping stage center in the second act of Tristan und Isolde and belting out “Seine eitle Pracht, seinen prahlenden Schein verlacht, wem ...