Two events that occurred in Pierre Audi’s life on July 20, 1969--attending Tristan und Isolde in Munich and watching Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon--would heavily influence the lunar metaphor in his 2016 production of Tristan at the Theatre des Champs-Élysées in Paris and at the Teatro dell-Opera di Roma. The Dutch National Opera premiere took place in 2018--with Stephen Gould as Tristan, and the revival[...]
An epic new series of Ring operas came to its conclusion at Brussels’ Theatre de la Monnaie on February 4 with the premiere of Götterdämmerung. All eight performances were sold […]
Parsifal: A Good Friday Play. To perform Parsifal on Easter has been and still is a tradition in many an opera house in Germany. Whereas the Bavarian State Opera in […]