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It is a tribute to an artistic legacy — one passed from generation to generation through conductors, musicians and audiences ...
Clay Hilley was a blistering Tristan and Sara Jakubiak – in her role debut – a persuasive Isolde with Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra detailed and minutely balanced The London Symphony ...
These lovers were resplendent in different ways. Sara Jakubiak, singing her first Isolde, looked the part: red hair against green dress for the Irish Queen, pale, almost mask-like face white with ...
Richard Wagner was a difficult person, to put it lightly—an infamous anti-Semite and world-historical egoist known for displaying ingratitude and duplicity toward lovers, friends, and benefactors ...
Yet looming over her was a November deadline to start rehearsals in Barcelona, Spain, for Richard Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde,” one of the pinnacles of the repertory for a dramatic soprano. And then ...
NEW YORK (AP) — When Lise Davidsen finished her last performance in Beethoven’s “Fidelio” at the Metropolitan Opera a year ago, she flew home to Norway to await the birth of twins, enjoy a six-month ...
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 ...
On the topic of “Tristan und Isolde,” Richard Wagner once said, “Only mediocre performances can save me! Thoroughly good ones would drive people insane.” Fortunately for the body politic, perfect ...