Rare is the chance to experience the first public performances of Tristan und Isolde led by a conductor as experienced as Gustavo Dudamel. When Esa-Pekka Salonen launched the Tristan Project in 2004, he was making his debut with Wagner's formidable score. Conceived for the LA Philharmonic in the still new Walt Disney Concert Hall, the series of performances featured one act each of the opera, partnered with[...]

Paul Du Quenoy
July 2019

It’s back! For the second time the Metropolitan Opera has revived Robert Lepage’s much loathed production of Wagner’s epic tetralogy, which is famously dominated by a vast mechanical contraption (“the  […]