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At the Festival d'Aix: to hear Tristan... and to die

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“The execution is precise, analytical, detailed, but never dry or insensitive”
Reviewed at Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence on 8 July 2021
Wagner, Tristan und Isolde
Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor
Simon Stone, Director
Ralph Myers, Set Designer
Mel Page, Costume Designer
James Farncombe, Lighting Designer
Stuart Skelton, Tristan
Nina Stemme, Isolde
Franz-Josef Selig, King Marke
Josef Wagner, Kurwenal
Dominic Sedgwick, Melot
Jamie Barton, Brangäne
Linard Vrielink, Shepherd, Young seaman
Ivan Thirion, Helmsman
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Musically peerless but battering: Wozzeck in Aix
***11
To die in order to live: Castellucci's Resurrection
****1
The devil rides a violin bow in Falstaff at Aix
*****
Dramatische Kulissen: Mozarts Idomeneo beim Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
***11
Cruel et exceptionnel Couronnement de Poppée à Aix-en-Provence
*****
Le Dante peu poétique de Pascal Dusapin à Aix-en-Provence
**111
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