Performer: Francis Dudziak

At the basic level Tristan und Isolde is an opera of hormones, not happenings; fathoms deeper it explores human experience at a point where sense is dumb and flesh retires – as close to heaven and hell as it’s possible to go without first having to die.

From time to time, audiences are presented with what I consider to be a rare event, a “dream” performer: one so convincing in his or her role that they become an ideal, establishing a standard to which all following interpretations will inevitably be compared – for example, Jacqueline du Pré’s interpretation of Elgar’s Cello Concerto has become a timeless benchmark.

L'opéra bouffe d'Offenbach remporte un nouveau succès sur la scène de l'Opéra de Marseille. Au côté d'Héloïse Mas, Florian Laconi se distingue dans le rôle-titre.