This image released by the Bavarian State Opera shows tenor Jonas Kaufmann as the mortally wounded Tristan during a rehearsal for his role debut in a new production of Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde," ...

The way “Tristan and Isolde” is written and talked about, you’re surprised that it’s done at all. Wagner’s 1859 epic isn’t just any opera, it’s a holy monument of music, an untouchable masterpiece. It ...

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The first Tristan and Isolde, June 10, 1865: Ludwig Schnorr von Caroldsfeld and his wife, Helena Schnorr von Carolsfeld. Ludwig dropped dead five days after the performance! There are learned people ...

Listen to our quick, light-hearted overview of Richard Wagner’s monumental Tristan und Isolde, one of the pinnacles of the operatic repertoire, and one of the greatest love stories ever told, which is ...

Tristan und Isolde is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the 12th-century romance Tristan by Gottfried von Strassburg. It was composed ...

The story of Tristan and Isolde has roots that may date back to the 8th-century story of a Pictish prince named Drust who saved a princess from pirates. As the story spread south to Wales, Drust ...

Soprano Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet plays Irish princess Isolde and tenor Clifton Forbis is Tristan in the Dallas Opera production. Please sit on your hands at the end of the Dallas Opera's Tristan und ...

If you live in Seattle and you’ve never been to the Seattle Opera, you’ve been wasting a precious and delicious resource, and it’s time for this to stop. In addition to the fact that classical music ...

Long Beach Opera took a risk by presenting “Le Vin Herbé” (The Love Potion), composer Frank Martin’s elegant Gallic take on the medieval legend of doomed lovers Tristan and Isolde, in a 1,500-seat Art ...

Washington National Opera (WNO) opens its 2013-2014 season with a production honoring the 200th birthday of one of opera's most renowned composers: Richard Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, today, ...