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[...]
Tristan und Isolde at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, which premiered on November 1, 2025, is not entirely new since it is a coproduction with the Grand Théâtre of Geneva and was premiered there […]
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 […]