Imprisoned by love: Bayreuth's Tristan und Isolde

By Matthew Rye, 02 August 2016

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“Gould was... tireless, crisply enunciated, shapely phrased and even in vocal weight”

Reviewed at Bayreuther Festspielhaus, Bayreuth on 1 August 2016

Wagner, Tristan und Isolde

Christian Thielemann, Conductor

Katharina Wagner, Director

Frank Philipp Schlößmann, Set Designer

Thomas Kaiser, Costume Designer

Stephen Gould, Tristan

Georg Zeppenfeld, King Marke

Petra Lang, Isolde

Iain Paterson, Kurwenal

Raimund Nolte, Melot

Claudia Mahnke, Brangäne

Tansel Akzeybek, Shepherd, Young seaman

Kay Stiefermann, Helmsman

Bayreuth Festival Chorus

Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

Reinhard Traub, Lighting Designer

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Matthew Rye

Matthew read music at Oxford and worked in music journalism for 30 years as a writer, critic and editor. He wrote numerous programme and CD booklet notes, spent 13 years as a Daily Telegraph critic, worked at BBC Music Magazine and was reviews editor of The Strad. He also wrote for The Wagner Journal and Opera and blogged at ferneklang.blogspot.co.uk. He was general editor of 1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die (Cassell Illustrated, 2007) and was the author of a new series of eBooks, Masterpieces of Music (Erudition).

Imprisoned by love: a thought-provoking Tristan und Isolde at the Bayreuth Festival