"A sniveling gnome with exceptional talent" — or so the composer was once described. Yet with his Bayreuth Festival, Richard Wagner managed to create a mythic idea of himself that has obscured who he ...

He gets third billing behind the two lovely and charming young actors playing the title roles, but Rufus Sewell’s affecting performance as King Marke is the unexpected heartbreak in the ...

"My Lords, if you would hear a high tale of love and death . . . ." In Love in the Western World, the Franco-Swiss philosopher Denis de Rougemont identifies the high tale of Tristan and Isolde as ...

Composed between 1857 and 1859 and premiered in 1865, “Tristan and Isolde” is Wagner’s telling of the tale of an Irish princess and a Breton nobleman, drawn together through violence and ...

Love stories come and go, but few have the durablity of Tristan & Isolde. People have been fascinated by this Dark Ages tale of star-crossed passion and devotion that would not die.

Before Romeo climbed that trellis for Juliet, before Guinevere cheated on Arthur, before Fox had a 20th Century, Tristan loved Isolde.

Icelandic director Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson’s production of “Tristan und Isolde” at the Bayreuth Festival is becomes a psychoanalytic examination of self-loathing and burdensome expectations.

For Queen Isolde has been given in marriage to King Mark; yet after a sip of a magic and non-Volstead potion she falls into the arms of Knight Tristan, and—they have an “affair.” Eventually ...

San Francisco Opera is presenting Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde) from October 19–November 5 under the baton of Caroline H. Hume Music Director Eun Sun Kim who leads ...

PHILADELPHIA — On Sunday afternoon at Marian Anderson Hall, Yannick Nézet-Séguin led his Philadelphia Orchestra through the four-hour entirety of Richard Wagner’s ‘Tristan and Isolde ...