Nuanced revival of McVicar's Tristan und Isolde

Por Katherine Syer, 14 marzo 2017

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“Gould offered a strikingly naive rendering of the heroic knight”

Crítica hecha desde Wiener Staatsoper, Viena el 12 marzo 2017

Wagner, Tristan und Isolde

Wiener Staatsoper

Mikko Franck, Dirección

Sir David McVicar, Dirección de escena

Robert Jones, Diseño de escena

Petra Lang, Isolde

Stephen Gould, Tristan

Kwangchul Youn, King Marke

Sophie Koch, Brangäne

Matthias Goerne, Kurwenal

Concert Association Vienna State Opera Chorus

Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera

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Katherine Syer

Katherine Syer is a Los Angeles-based writer/editor, public scholar, and dramaturg following a teaching career at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and UCLA

Nuanced revival of McVicar's Tristan und Isolde at the Wiener Staatsoper