Yuval Sharon in Conversation with Cori Ellison

What happens when opera’s most fearless rule-breaker takes on one of its most monumental works? In this wide-ranging conversation, Yuval Sharon joins dramaturg Cori Ellison to unpack his bold new staging of Tristan und Isolde at the Metropolitan Opera. Known as opera’s “disrupter-in-residence,” Sharon brings his signature curiosity to the work, opening up fresh ways of listening, seeing, and experiencing its emotional and philosophical intensity.

We’ll also dive into his book, A New Philosophy of Opera, a manifesto-meets-invitation that reimagines opera as something alive, flexible, and radically inclusive. From parking-lot performances to rethinking canonical structures, Sharon shares why he believes opera isn’t dying: it’s constantly being reborn.