After the New Year celebrations, the Semperoper Dresden is launching the second half of its current season with another eagerly awaited opera highlight – and not just for fans of Wagner. After more ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

Lise Davidsen and Michael Spyres in Tristan und Isolde at the Metropolitan Opera (Karen Almond / Met Opera) The second half of the 2025–26 season opens with a Wagner event for the ages, as blazing ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

The Santa Fe Opera proved it was possible to stage a high-quality Tristan und Isolde at an elevation of nearly 7,000 feet with its new production of Richard Wagner’s vocal behemoth, which opened ...

In his 2024 book, “A New Philosophy of Opera,” the American director Yuval Sharon offered a radical vision for an art form that is often mired in convention and conformity. He posited that opera’s ...

In his book on reinventing opera, director Yuval Sharon describes Tristan und Isolde as “the single hardest work in the traditional repertoire to stage”. Yet here he is, about to make his Metropolitan ...

An excerpt from Act 3 of Tristan und Isolde, starring Nina Stemme and Stuart Skelton. The Met’s new production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle in his first Met ...