Wagner

Tristan und Isolde Review: Triumphant Wagner rounds off Glyndebourne F | Theatre | Entertainment

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Tristan und Isolde Review: Triumphant Wagner rounds off Glyndebourne F | Theatre | Entertainment

The legend of Tristan and Isolde (also known in some versions as Iseult) dates back at least to the Middle Ages. Tristan is depicted elsewhere as one of King Arthur’s Round Table Knights but in this story acts as an emissary of King Mark of Cornwall, charged with bringing back Isolde from Ireland to be … Read more

The Flying Dutchman Review – Powerful Wagnerian drama at the Royal Opera House | Theatre | Entertainment

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The Flying Dutchman Review – Powerful Wagnerian drama at the Royal Opera House | Theatre | Entertainment

Richard Wagner was still in his late-20s when he achieved his first great operatic hit with The Flying Dutchman, but both the plot and the music already showed the grandeur, the ambition and the power he was to achieve in his later highly-acclaimed works. The opera is based on a legend of a ghost ship, … Read more