This is the David Hockney "Tristan," named for its illustrious designer and featuring singers who are just barely getting by. The singer famine haunts the land. John Treleaven, whose Tristan was heard ...

From the off, this was something very special: Lothar Koenigs left the first, hypnotic phrase of the Prelude hanging in the late-afternoon air for so long that a literally ‘edge-of-the-seat’ frisson ...

“This Tristan is becoming something terrible!” wrote Richard Wagner while working on the third act of what was to become his most famous opera. “I fear the opera will be forbidden unless the whole ...

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Wagner’s five-hour Tristan und Isolde — returning to the Philadelphia Orchestra for the first time since 1934 — is something that great musicians long to live up to and hold for conditions to be as ...

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Another masterpiece, this time the crowning achievement of the “Father of Modern Music,” was presented at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, last week, “The greatest music in the world,” said ...

This is the David Hockney "Tristan," named for its illustrious designer and featuring singers who are just barely getting by. Times were when people spoke of Wagner’s drama of hearts aflame and ...

A much-publicized show, “The Tristan Project,” took place at Avery Fisher Hall on Wednesday night. What is it? It is a performance of Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” featuring video images done by Bill ...

The Royal Opera’s new production of Tristan und Isolde is going to divide people. While few will dispute that the musical standards are of the very highest, the staging is controversial and there was ...

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