Ben Heppner: Tristan und Isolde: Welsh National Opera (WNO) - 2012 Update

Update: We provide a Photo Preview here I did say I would try to keep you updated. However, given that it is 12 months to first night, news is not "coming thick and fast" - as would be expected. Nevertheless, WNO have very kindly provided a little...

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Where and when to listen to: Bayreuth 2011: Tristan und Isolde

"After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true. --Spock in 'Amok Time' Following yesterdays Tannhauser, next-up (well to be broadcasted anyway): another revival...

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Goodall's Studio 1982 Tristan und Isolde (finally!) reissued

I must say this is something of a treat if you have not got it already. Long deleted by Decca, for reasons many have never understood, possibly one of the greatest Tristans no one has ever heard - now finally released by ArkivMusic....

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Michael Tanner Reviews: Tristan und Isolde - Grange Park

As I repeat often, reviews are such subjective things - as is reality according to Schopenhauer of course ("Die Welt ist meine Vorstellung") - but I really am starting to worry about Michael Tanner -  noted Wagnerian he might be - when he defines...

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Transcendence In Hampshire: Tristan und Isolde - Grange Park Opera - a not review

“The way the will sometimes takes matters into its own hands can be seen in me. It had its ideas for me, and since I should have otherwise stopped cooperating, it brought us together in real life – independent of the fact that outside of time and space...

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Wagner, Tristan, Buddhism and San Francisco Opera's Ring Cycle

As part of SF Opera's complete Ring Cycle, a series of lectures is taking place called Buddhism and Wagner's Ring Cycle which is being chaired by Paul Schofield: wagnerian, former Buddhist monk and author of Redeemer Reborn: Parsifal as the Fifth Opera...

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