The opening night of the Metropolitan Opera’s new Tristan und Isolde was one of those great nights at the opera, the kind that will have people arguing what shone most: the confident complexity of ...
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra principal trumpet player Billy R. Hunter Jr. practices with a holztrompete, a wood horn specified by Richard Wagner for the third act of Tristan und Isolde," at the ...
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 ...