Tristan und Isolde

...a serene close. The soprano (Nuccia Focile, sounding game but out of her element) offers a paean to wedding bells, with a snippet of "Tristan und Isolde" for flavoring, followed by a lusty scherzo for chorus alone. Most ravishing is the...

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...creature, conjuring up tenderness and refined beauty of tone from musicians clearly as bewitched as himself by the score's echoes of Tristan und Isolde, composed during the same period. The Tannhauser overture, too, had appealing and...

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...then, as a reminder that Rattle and his ensemble can make beautiful German music together, too, the sublime "Liebestod" from Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde": They could do worse ... however, lately I've been disappointed in Rattle. I'm not...

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...and how "Falstaff" came into the picture to capitalize on the opportunity to present Peter Rose - already seen and admired here in "Tristan und Isolde," "Rusalka," and "Der Rosenkavalier" - in this plum baritone role. But fortuitous...

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...Wine Shop Legal Store FlatShare Cruises HOME > ENTERTAINMENT > THEATRE > Wagner's Tristan und Isolde: Royal Opera House, London WAGNER'S TRISTAN UND ISOLDE: ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, LONDON LIKE MOST of the UK s classically-based dance...

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Navigation - link to other main sections from here Never before have I seen a Royal Opera production greeted with a standing ovation and then a fortissimo volley of boos. The first I understand. That was for Nina Stemme, whose Isolde was...

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Tristan und Isolde at the Royal Opera House, review Christof Loy's new production of Tristan und Isolde lacks a strong outline of theatrical logic. Rating: * * * Christof Loy's new production of Tristan und Isolde starts rather...

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...who happen to be an endangered species, anyway. John Treleaven and Linda Watson, who had not been impressive in the company's "Tristan und Isolde" in 2008, pretty much came through Saturday. Treleaven compensates for lack of...

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Ben Heppner talks about rehearsing for the Royal Opera's Tristan und Isolde. Ben Heppner will play Tristan It doesn't sound like anyone's idea of the mood appropriate to Wagnerian tragedy but Ben Heppner assured me that rehearsals for...

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Navigation - link to other main sections from here Scene: the outskirts of a giant plughole. Well, that's what it looks like for a second. But like most things in Nikolaus Lehnhoff's powerfully penetrating 2003 staging, Roland...

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