Tristan und Isolde
Americannoun
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In Jerusalem in 2001, he provoked controversy by conducting the Prelude to the opera Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner at the Israel Festival.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2025
"MET Opera: Tristan und Isolde," Fathom Events, $1,080,000, 900 locations, $1,200 average, $1,080,000, 1 week.
From US News • Oct. 10, 2016
Escalating from Broadway patter song to Tristan und Isolde intensity, it challenges Josh Gad’s “In Summer,” from , as the cleverest and most passionately rendered original number in recent movie history.
From Time • Apr. 10, 2014
Over the Christmas period and to celebrate 2013's Wagner bicentenary, the Guardian and Glyndebourne are offering a free stream of the opera company's 2007 production of Tristan und Isolde.
From The Guardian • Dec. 20, 2012
The person most haunted by Berlioz’s symphonic setting of Romeo and Juliet, on the other hand, was Richard Wagner, who used it as a stylistic template for his opera Tristan und Isolde in 1865.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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