Saturday, April 28, 2007

Visualizing the Depths of "Tristan"

"By Matthew Gurewitsch, Published: April 29, 2007

Staging Wagner’s 'Tristan und Isolde' is a notoriously treacherous proposition. A man and a woman are seized by a forbidden passion, are discovered and pay with their lives. That’s it––for three long acts, running four hours, give or take. Wagner thought of his cosmic rhapsody of love that kills not as a story set to music, but as 'deeds of music made visible.'"

-from the ny times. hey, i'd see it.

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